Bridge, Magherascouse Road (near No.118), Magherascouse, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5[?RU] is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Bridge, Magherascouse Road (near No.118), Magherascouse, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5[?RU]
- WRENN ID
- drifting-belfry-cobweb
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 448 662
- Coordinates
- 54.52392, -5.76387
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
A road bridge, dating approximately from 1856, is located on the Magherascouse Road, about two miles south of Comber, County Down. The bridge is constructed of basalt rubble with a brick elliptical arch, and includes sandstone coping to the parapet, with some patching in concrete. Sandstone quoins appear on the parapet and as a course above the arch. The arch is currently fringed with ‘Tyrolean’ render on both sides. A pipe is attached to the bridge on the northeastern side and an Ordnance Survey benchmark is situated to the right on the northeastern parapet. The road surface is tarmac.
The bridge was likely constructed between 1856 and 1857 to carry the Magherascouse Road over the Belfast, County Down and Monaghan Railway line, which ran between Comber and Downpatrick and opened officially in March 1859. The bridge is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1858-60. The railway ceased operation in 1950. The bridge demonstrates industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Bridge, Magherascouse Road (near No.118), Magherascouse, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 5[?RU] 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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