Gorse Lane Bridge, HUL3/8 is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 2015. Bridge.
Gorse Lane Bridge, HUL3/8
- WRENN ID
- stark-spindle-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 2015
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SE 479 321
- Coordinates
- 53.78348, -1.27442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gorse Lane Bridge is a railway overbridge built between 1830 and 1834 by James Walker of Walker & Burges for the Leeds & Selby Railway.
The bridge features a single-span design that carries a road over the railway, with the capacity to accommodate four tracks. It is constructed from squared, coursed, and tooled sandstone ashlar blocks, along with squared, coursed, and quarry-faced Magnesium limestone blocks. The basket arch is made of sandstone ashlar, with stepped, tooled, and inscribed v-jointed voussoirs that spring from a wide, horizontally-tooled impost band. The arch soffit consists of large stone blocks. The abutments are made of smaller blocks of coursed, quarry-faced Magnesium limestone. The parapets are constructed from larger blocks of sandstone ashlar, featuring pronounced horizontal tooling and ending in distinctive oval piers. These parapets rest on square-cut, tooled string courses and have asymmetrically-curved coping with horizontal tooling.
It is noted that the 20th-century railings made of horizontal timber planks with metal struts attached to the original stone parapets are not considered to have special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Gorse Lane Bridge, HUL3/8 receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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