Railway Bridge, off 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.
Railway Bridge, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB
- WRENN ID
- second-wicket-curlew
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Railway Bridge, off Saintfield Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down, BT23 6HB, BT23 6HB
- Irish grid reference
- J 428 636
- Coordinates
- 54.5007, -5.79633
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a railway bridge dating from the 1850s, constructed of basalt rubble with sandstone voussoirs and flanking buttresses. The bridge carries the former railway line over the Ballygowan River, situated north of Saintfield Road and west of the centre of Ballygowan. Built between 1856 and 1857 as part of the Belfast County Down Railway line connecting Comber and Downpatrick (officially opened in March 1859), it is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858-60. Owing to the railway’s closure in 1950 and subsequent road widening and residential development, the bridge is now largely hidden and difficult to access. The north face is concealed by vegetation to the east of a modern dwelling, displaying a semicircular arch with sandstone voussoirs. The south face is inaccessible due to a steep riverbank and dense hedging. The structure possesses industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Railway Bridge, off 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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