Railway Bridge Over Northampton Road is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Bridge.
Railway Bridge Over Northampton Road
- WRENN ID
- broken-banister-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge Over Northampton Road, Blisworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 728 541
- Coordinates
- 52.18079, -0.93611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge over Northampton Road was built around 1837. It features a red brick exterior faced with grey lias. The bridge has a single arch that spans the main road to Northampton, with a round-headed arch that includes imposts and a keyblock. It is flanked by large pilaster buttresses with a buffer. The structure also has a moulded stone cornice and a plain stone-coped parapet. This bridge is significant as part of Robert Stephenson's pioneering London-Birmingham railway line and is depicted in several contemporary illustrations.
Local climate
Railway Bridge Over Northampton Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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