Rosthwaite Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Road bridge.
Rosthwaite Bridge
- WRENN ID
- quiet-bracket-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Rosthwaite Bridge, Borrowdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 258 149
- Coordinates
- 54.52453, -3.14659
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rosthwaite Bridge is a road bridge built in the early 19th century. It features an inscribed parapet stone that reads, "THIS BRIDGE WAS BUILT FOR AND AT THE SOLE EXPENCE OF THOMAS SIMPSON BY M. KENNEDY MASON." The bridge is constructed from greenslate rubble and has a narrow single-span design with a humped-back profile. It includes slate voussoirs and a solid parapet topped with slate-slab coping.
Local climate
Rosthwaite Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 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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