Ruthern Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1969. Bridge.
Ruthern Bridge
- WRENN ID
- crooked-keep-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1969
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Ruthern Bridge, Lanivet
- OS grid reference
- SX 012 668
- Coordinates
- 50.46753, -4.80131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruthern Bridge is a bridge over the River Ruthern, dating from around 1450. It is constructed of granite and slatestone rubble and features two four-centred arches with recessed slatestone arch rings. On the upstream side, there is a central triangular cutwater with a refuge made of granite ashlar, along with smaller triangular cutwaters with refuges in ashlar on the outer side of each arch. The downstream side has rounded arches with similar recessed slatestone arch rings and matching central and outer cutwaters in ashlar. The parapet walls are approximately half a metre high, made of granite rubble with chamfered granite coping. There are three refuges on the upstream side, and the parapet wall extends about 12 metres to the east, gradually decreasing in height. The bridge measures about 20 metres long and about 4 metres wide. Ruthern Bridge is located on an ancient road from Bodmin over Hustyn Down to Padstow and was referred to as Rothyn Brygge in 1494.
Local climate
Ruthern 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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