Low Gardens Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2000. Bridge.

Low Gardens Bridge

WRENN ID
scarred-bronze-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 2000
Type
Bridge
Address
Low Gardens Bridge, Lowther, Westmorland and Furness
OS grid reference
NY 521 250
Coordinates
54.61812, -2.74314
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Gardens Bridge is a road bridge dating from the mid to late 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble sandstone, featuring dressed blocks on the parapet walls and ashlar copings. The bridge has a wide, single span shallow arch supported by embanked and ramped abutments with stone facings. The arch is made of two tiers of thin rubble voussoirs, with rubble spandrel infill, which support more precisely coursed dressed masonry parapet walls. The bridge spans the River Lowther, which forms the boundary between the parishes of Lowther and Yanwath and Eamont Bridge. This impressive and largely unaltered road bridge has a vernacular origin and scale, and it was later enhanced when it came under estate ownership.

Local climate

Low Gardens Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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