Craghouse Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Bridge.
Craghouse Bridge
- WRENN ID
- floating-corridor-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Craghouse Bridge, Irton with Santon, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 104 025
- Coordinates
- 54.41051, -3.38077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Craghouse Bridge is a road bridge, likely built in the 18th century. It is constructed from slobbered, coursed rubble. The bridge features a single segmental arch that spans approximately 30 feet, with a roadway that is 6½ feet wide. The parapet stands 3 feet high and has flat copings with splayed ends.
Local climate
Craghouse Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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