Rhinefield Bridge Over Blackwater Stream North of Rhinefield House is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1998. Bridge.
Rhinefield Bridge Over Blackwater Stream North of Rhinefield House
- WRENN ID
- western-parapet-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1998
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Rhinefield Bridge Over Blackwater Stream North of Rhinefield House, Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, Brockenhurst
- OS grid reference
- SU 267 045
- Coordinates
- 50.84019, -1.62196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rhinefield Bridge is a bridge that carries a minor road over the Blackwater Stream, located north of Rhinefield House in Brockenhurst. It was built in 1949 or 1950 and designed by E W H Gifford, the County Bridge Engineer for Hampshire County Council. The bridge features a prestressed concrete deck and timber parapet fences, with a clear span of 33 feet. It is notable for being the first of several bridges in the New Forest constructed using precast, post-tensioned units with the Freyssinet system, where the units are stressed together transversely. The bridge has a slight vertical curvature that helps make the cables straighter, reducing friction, which is suitable for a road with limited speed and set in a woodland environment. While the timber fence is likely not original, it is similar to what would have been used. This bridge is considered an attractive structure and is probably the first prestressed concrete bridge in England designed by an English engineer.
Local climate
Rhinefield Bridge Over Blackwater Stream North of Rhinefield House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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