Ballyrickard Bridge, (formerly over railway), Moate Road, Ballyrickard, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 4XA is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Ards and North Down local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Ballyrickard Bridge, (formerly over railway), Moate Road, Ballyrickard, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 4XA
- WRENN ID
- final-barrel-birch
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Ards and North Down
- Constituency
- Strangford MP: Jim Shannon (DUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Ballyrickard Bridge, (formerly over railway), Moate Road, Ballyrickard, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 4XA, BT23 4XA
- Irish grid reference
- J 481 707
- Coordinates
- 54.56372, -5.71082
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This sandstone road bridge, constructed between 1848 and 1850, carries the Moate Road over a former railway line or tunnel approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Comber. The bridge is built of rock-faced, dressed sandstone. The archway on the northeast side is largely filled in, as the adjacent cutting has been backfilled. Battered piers flank the arch, and a slightly projecting course sits above it, with coping along the parapet. On the southwest side, the railway appears to have run underground, leaving only a low sandstone wall, now obscured by rubble and greenery. The road surface itself is covered in tarmac.
The bridge formed part of the Belfast & County Down Railway, connecting Belfast, Comber, and Newtownards, which opened in May 1850 and was subsequently abandoned in 1953. The bridge appears to have spanned a tunnel section of the railway line. It possesses industrial archaeological interest, reflecting its role in the railway's infrastructure.
Local climate
Ballyrickard Bridge, (formerly over railway), Moate Road, Ballyrickard, Comber, Co. Down, BT23 4XA 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 93% 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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