Thieves Clough Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Bridge.
Thieves Clough Bridge
- WRENN ID
- broken-wall-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Thieves Clough Bridge, Standedge
- OS grid reference
- SE 020 100
- Coordinates
- 53.58742, -1.96985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thieves Clough Bridge is an 18th-century packhorse bridge featuring a single span semicircular arch. It is constructed from roughly coursed dry rubble and spans over Thieves Clough. This bridge was part of the former Trans-Pennine packhorse route that connected Mount Road in Marsden to Lancashire.
Local climate
Thieves Clough Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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