St Thomas Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Road bridge.
St Thomas Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dark-rampart-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- St Thomas Bridge, St Thomas Road, Launceston
- OS grid reference
- SX 328 850
- Coordinates
- 50.64151, -4.36503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Thomas Bridge is a road bridge over the River Kensey in Launceston, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite copings secured by iron cramps. The bridge features three round-arched spans, two of which are for the river, and one for the leat that served the former Kensey Tannery.
Local climate
St Thomas Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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