Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House.

Bridge House

WRENN ID
high-clay-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1949
Type
House
Address
Bridge House, the Parade, Lostwithiel
OS grid reference
SX 105 598
Coordinates
50.40748, -4.66746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge House is a house from the mid-18th century, with 19th-century and later alterations and additions. It is constructed of slatestone rubble, with the first floor hung with asbestos slate on the front and right side, and features brick dressings and granite quoins at the ground floor. The roof is hipped with slurried slate and has a brick stack on the left side of the ridge. The building has a double depth plan with a central entrance, and the principal rooms are located to the front right and left. There is a 19th-century addition at the rear that is one storey with an attic for service rooms, as well as a single-storey 20th-century addition on the left side.

The house is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window front. The first floor features 12-pane sash windows in exposed boxes, while the ground floor has a central glazed door within a 20th-century glazed porch, flanked by 12-pane sashes with sidelights and cambered heads in brick surrounds on either side. The left side has a single-storey 20th-century rendered addition with two windows and a door. The right side includes an outshut at the rear, which is also one storey with an attic. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bridge House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 0.2°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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