Bridge, Cannyreagh Road, Hogstown, Donaghadee, Co Down is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Bridge, Cannyreagh Road, Hogstown, Donaghadee, Co Down
- WRENN ID
- empty-thatch-sorrel
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- North Down MP: Alex Easton (Ind)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 572 789
- Coordinates
- 54.6343, -5.56574
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a single-span, humped-back road bridge, constructed around 1859-60, built to carry the Cannyreagh Road over what was the Newtownards-Donaghadee section of the Belfast & Co Down Railway. The railway line has since been removed, and the former cutting to the east has been largely filled in, obscuring that side of the bridge. The bridge is situated on a bend in the road, approximately half a mile west of Donaghadee.
The bridge is largely constructed of rock-faced fieldstone rubble, featuring a single elliptical arch. The arch itself is lined with brick on the intrados, and utilizes rock-faced, v-jointed sandstone for the voussoirs and quoins. Splayed triangular buttresses are positioned on either side of the arch on the western face of the bridge. Sandstone string courses run at arch springing level and just above the arch, with the upper course visible only from the west due to the infill of the former railway cutting. The parapets are finished with sandstone coping.
The bridge was built between October 1859 and June 1861 as part of the Belfast & Co Down Railway's new line between Newtownards and Donaghadee. It was likely designed by Sir John MacNeill, the BCDR’s chief engineer, and constructed by his principal contractor, Patrick Moore. The railway line closed in 1950. The structure has industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Bridge, Cannyreagh Road, Hogstown, Donaghadee, Co Down sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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