Half Penny Bridge Over the River Derwent is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1988. Road bridge.

Half Penny Bridge Over the River Derwent

WRENN ID
little-stone-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 May 1988
Type
Road bridge
Address
Half Penny Bridge Over the River Derwent, Holly Lane, Ripley
OS grid reference
SK 346 514
Coordinates
53.05943, -1.48374
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Half Penny Bridge over the River Derwent is a road bridge built in 1792 by local industrialist Francis Hurt. It is constructed from ashlar and coursed rubble gritstone. The bridge features two wide segmental arches with triangular sectioned cutwaters located at the center and west sides. There are pilasters on both sides at the east. The cutwaters rise into the parapets, which have a plain band above the arches and flat copings. To the west, there is a rubble abutment that includes five stilted semi-circular arches with low cutwaters in between, and further west, a segmental arch spans the tail race from the Wire Works downstream. The bridge has plain rubble parapets.

Local climate

Half Penny Bridge Over the River Derwent receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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