Leigh Road Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Road bridge.
Leigh Road Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- night-wall-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Leigh Road Railway Bridge, Whatley Lane, Winsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 362 055
- Coordinates
- 50.84611, -2.90739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh Road Railway Bridge is a road bridge over a railway, built around 1860. It is constructed from rusticated and squared local lias stone, with some sections made of boasted Ham stone copings. The bridge features cast iron girders that support slightly arched brick vaults. At both ends and at the bank seats, there are square piers, along with a boasted band course at road level. The parapets are flat and topped with simple Ham stone copings. The four cast iron beams have segmental bottom flanges and are connected by three tie-rods that provide additional support to the brick vaults carrying the road. According to the Industrial Archaeological Society, this bridge is one of only two of its type still remaining in the county.
Local climate
Leigh Road Railway Bridge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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