Kennel Bridge, Castle Plumb, Mount Alexander, Comber, Co Down, BT23 is a listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Kennel Bridge, Castle Plumb, Mount Alexander, Comber, Co Down, BT23
- WRENN ID
- swift-chalk-sage
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 456 698
- Coordinates
- 54.55637, -5.75004
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The site represents a former stone bridge, likely built between 1820 and 1834, that crossed the Enler River just north of Comber, near the site of the ruin of Mount Alexander House. The bridge was demolished around 1994-95 and replaced with a new structure of a different design. The original bridge, as depicted on Ordnance Survey maps from 1834 and 1858-60, comprised a long, narrow roadway bridged by two elliptical arches over the river and three smaller, segmental and elliptic arches providing access to the fields on either side. Its construction used sandstone and basalt rubble, with rough rock-faced coping along the parapets; the arches included some roughly dressed voussoirs. Wide buttresses were present on both the east and west sides, the western ones being particularly heavy and made of concrete. The new bridge has a single arch over the river and three 'accommodation' arches leading to the fields, and may have incorporated some of the sandstone from the original bridge as facing material. The site retains industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Kennel Bridge, Castle Plumb, Mount Alexander, Comber, Co Down, BT23 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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