Quay wall 40 metres to north west of north east end of Wadebridge Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1988. Quay wall.
Quay wall 40 metres to north west of north east end of Wadebridge Bridge
- WRENN ID
- ruined-soffit-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1988
- Type
- Quay wall
- OS grid reference
- SW 991 725
- Coordinates
- 50.51791, -4.83455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The quay wall located 40 metres northwest of the northeast end of Wadebridge Bridge is a Grade II listed structure. It consists of remains of quay walls dating from the 18th century, although it has earlier origins. The walls are made of slatestone rubble, primarily built in vertical courses, with horizontal slatestone piers forming the wall along Bradford quay on the northeast bank of the River Camel.
While the original warehouses on the quay have mostly been replaced with 20th-century galvanised buildings, part of the North Cornwall Railway station, constructed in 1895, still remains. The River Camel was navigable for vessels up to sixty tons from Padstow to Wadebridge, and there was a dock that could accommodate twenty barges. Both Bradford quay and the Town Quay on the opposite bank were used for unloading various materials, including coal, slates, lime, bricks, timber, and later cement. After 1834, when the first steam railway in Cornwall was established between Wadebridge and Bodmin, sea sand was transported up the river from Padstow to Wadebridge and then carried inland.
Local climate
Quay wall 40 metres to north west of north east end of Wadebridge Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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