Footbridge Over Lane to Estate Yard and Flanking Walls Forming North End of Mock Fortifications to North East of Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. A C18 Footbridge.

Footbridge Over Lane to Estate Yard and Flanking Walls Forming North End of Mock Fortifications to North East of Prideaux Place

WRENN ID
small-thatch-aspen
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1988
Type
Footbridge
Address
Footbridge Over Lane to Estate Yard and Flanking Walls Forming North End of Mock Fortifications to North East of Prideaux Place, Padstow
OS grid reference
SW 914 756
Coordinates
50.54297, -4.94548
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The footbridge over the lane to the estate yard, along with the flanking walls, forms the north end of the mock fortifications located to the northeast of Prideaux Place. This structure dates from the early 19th century and is built from slate stone rubble. The footbridge spans the lane leading to the estate yard, which lies north of Prideaux Place. It features a dressed stone 4-centred arch supported by stepped buttresses, and has a coped parapet that is raised and pointed at the center above the apex of the arch. The flanking walls on both the west and east sides are crenellated, and there is a dressed stone arch from the 16th century that has likely been reset in the west wall. The footbridge and walls are believed to be an early 19th-century addition to the mock fortifications originally constructed to the east of Prideaux Place by Edmund Prideaux between 1728 and 1745, or possibly by his son Humphrey before 1758, when they were partially depicted in a print by Borlase.

Local climate

Footbridge Over Lane to Estate Yard and Flanking Walls Forming North End of Mock Fortifications to North East of Prideaux Place 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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