Orr’s Bridge, Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Orr’s Bridge, Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-merlon-kestrel
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Orr’s Bridge, Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB, BT23 6HB
- Irish grid reference
- J 428 635
- Coordinates
- 54.50008, -5.79651
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A road bridge over the Ballygowan River, likely dating to before 1834 and potentially constructed between 1820 and 1839, is situated on the Saintfield Road, close to the village of Ballygowan in County Down. The bridge is of industrial archaeological interest. The southeastern face of the bridge appears largely original, constructed of flat basalt rubble with a single semicircular arch formed with sandstone voussoirs. Large triangular buttresses flank the arch, now faced in concrete. A small hole, likely for drainage, is located above the arch, accompanied by a projecting stone resembling a shelf. The northwestern face was rebuilt more recently, likely due to the widening of the road, and now features a square concrete arch. The road surface is tarmac. The bridge is shown on Ordnance Survey maps from 1834 and 1858-60 and is labelled 'Orrs Bridge' on both. The road to Saintfield appears to have been widened in recent times, necessitating the rebuilding of the northwestern face. Ownership is by central government.
Local climate
Orr’s Bridge, Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB 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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