Packhorse Bridge, North of Coombe Gill Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 2022. Bridge.
Packhorse Bridge, North of Coombe Gill Mill
- WRENN ID
- crooked-vestry-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 2022
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Packhorse Bridge, North of Coombe Gill Mill, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5XQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 253 135
- Coordinates
- 54.51168, -3.15436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packhorse Bridge, located north of Coombe Gill Mill, dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is a single-span, arched hump-backed bridge constructed from local slate rubble stone, designed to carry a former pack horse route across the Coombe Gill to the nearby mill. The single arch features crude yet carefully laid voussoirs, and the bridge is flanked by low parapets made of boulder stone, approximately three courses high, topped with large, irregular flat coping stones. A portion of the cobble surface of the bridge is clearly visible.
Local climate
Packhorse Bridge, North of Coombe Gill Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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