Bridge, off Ravara Road, Ravara, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HD is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.

Bridge, off Ravara Road, Ravara, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HD

WRENN ID
scarred-rubble-umber
Grade
Record Only
Local Planning Authority
Ards and North Down
Constituency
Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
Country
Northern Ireland
Address
Bridge, off Ravara Road, Ravara, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HD, BT23 6HD
Irish grid reference
J 423 633
Coordinates
54.49841, -5.80355
Source
NI Environment Agency listing

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Description

A road bridge of rubble construction with a sandstone arch, situated off Ravara Road, near Ballygowan in County Down. The bridge was likely built between 1856 and 1857 to carry the Ravara Road across the then-new Belfast County Down Railway line between Comber and Downpatrick, which officially opened in March 1859. It is shown on an Ordnance Survey map from 1858. The bridge is set at a slight skew and features an elliptical arch with sandstone voussoirs and a brick intrados. The sides of the bridge are partially obscured by extensive greenery. The road surface is tarmac. Following the railway's closure in 1950, the Ravara Road was straightened slightly to the north, and the road now provides access to private homes. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest.

Local climate

Bridge, off Ravara Road, Ravara, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HD sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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