St Davids Ruin is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Folly.

St Davids Ruin

WRENN ID
woven-hall-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Shipley MP: Anna Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1985
Type
Folly
Address
St Davids Ruin, Ruin Bank Wood, Wilsden
OS grid reference
SE 093 377
Coordinates
53.83584, -1.85872
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St. David's Ruin is a folly built in 1796, initially commissioned by Benjamin Ferrand. It features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings. The structure includes a tall wall with a pointed arch on one side of a short circular tower, which has two pointed-arched windows with an inner rebate for glazing. The pointed-arched doorway is adorned with an inscribed lintel and a roll-moulded band. This conventionally ruined folly is prominently located on a hilltop above Harden village and is visible from St. Ives, the home of Benjamin Ferrand.

Local climate

St Davids Ruin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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