Ferry Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1967. Bridge.
Ferry Bridge
- WRENN ID
- fading-lead-thrush
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Selby MP: Keir Mather (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1967
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Ferry Bridge, Old Great North Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 483 246
- Coordinates
- 53.71587, -1.26954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ferry Bridge is a bridge built in 1797, designed by architect John Carr of York, with construction completed in 1804 by builder Bernard Hartley of Pontefract. It features tooled millstone grit ashlar and has eight round-headed arches: four land arches on the Ferrybridge side, one land arch on the Brotherton side, and three larger river arches. The river arches are distinguished by volute keystones and hoodmoulds, while the two flanking land arches have plain keystones and rusticated surrounds. Canted cutwaters between the river arches are topped with refuges in the parapet. Each side of the river arches has a pier with a niche in a quoined surround. The section bordered by the piers has a dentilled cornice, and the bridge has a three-course parapet with a vase balustrade in the central section. The parapet ends are splayed with rounded caps on three ends. The bridge underwent 20th-century restoration.
Local climate
Ferry Bridge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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