Hesket Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Roadbridge. 1 related planning application.
Hesket Bridge
- WRENN ID
- sharp-threshold-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Roadbridge
- Address
- Hesket Bridge, Caldbeck, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 343 388
- Coordinates
- 54.74043, -3.02176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hesket Bridge is a road bridge, likely built in the mid-18th century, with 19th-century widening and 20th-century rebuilt parapets. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features two segmental arches supported by a central pier, with pointed cutwaters beneath a solid parapet that has chamfered coping. The underside of the arches indicates that the bridge was originally designed for single-track width. For further reference, see E. Jervoise's "Ancient Bridges of the North of England," published in 1931, on page 117 for an illustration and page 120 for additional details.
Local climate
Hesket Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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