Albert Street Cutting, Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1989. Canal cutting. 1 related planning application.

Albert Street Cutting, Bridgwater and Taunton Canal

WRENN ID
gaunt-vault-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1989
Type
Canal cutting
Address
Albert Street Cutting, Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, West Street
OS grid reference
ST 293 367
Coordinates
51.12569, -3.01103
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Albert Street Cutting on the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal cutting built between 1839 and 1841, engineered by Thomas Maddicks. It features two sandstone rubble walls that are approximately 1210 meters long and 4.5 meters high, running along the towpath and the opposite side of the canal from about 15 meters southeast of Albert Street Bridge to approximately 50 meters northwest of West Street Bridge. The walls include plain pilasters at regular intervals and plain stone bands above. A short section of the offside wall southeast of West Street Bridge has been rebuilt using concrete blocks. There is also a rubblestone towpath retaining wall with squared flagstone edging. The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal itself was constructed between 1824 and 1827, with James Hollinsworth as the engineer, and was extended into Bridgwater by Thomas Maddicks in the later years.

Local climate

Albert Street Cutting, Bridgwater and Taunton Canal receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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