Bridge over railway, Main Street, Crumlin, Co Antrim is a listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Bridge over railway, Main Street, Crumlin, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- rusted-cornice-hazel
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 155 761
- Coordinates
- 54.62005, -6.21164
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a single-arch masonry bridge built between 1840 and 1859, constructed from rubble basalt with a segmental brick archway. The bridge carries the main street of Crumlin over a railway line. It exhibits early Victorian bridge engineering and retains an unspoiled appearance.
The bridge has battered faces to its abutments, with pier-like projections at the extremities and near the springing point of the arch. The brick archway is set back from the abutment piers and is constructed from six courses of firebrick, with a sandstone keystone. A projecting sandstone string course is present at carriageway level, and sandstone copings define the parapets. The brickwork is vaulted and skewed, and the carriageway has a hump-backed profile. The parapet copings are roughly faced with chiselled edges, while the copings over the abutment piers have angled caps with flat tops.
The bridge is located within the built-up area of the village, at the east end of the main street, and is surrounded by grassy banks. It was built to carry the main street over the Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway, a branch line of the Great Northern Railway. Although the branch line itself was constructed between 1864 and 1871, the bridge appears on an Ordnance Survey map from 1858. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Bridge over railway, Main Street, Crumlin, Co Antrim receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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