Bridge at the Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. A C18 Bridge.
Bridge at the Rookery
- WRENN ID
- shifting-quartz-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge at the Rookery, Buxton Road, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 192 696
- Coordinates
- 53.22339, -1.71348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bridge at The Rookery is an 18th-century structure located on the south side of Buxton Road in the parish of Ashford in the Water. It is built from coursed limestone rubble with gritstone dressings. The bridge features four arches, including two central segmental arches and narrow, stiled, semi-circular headed arches on either side. Above the arches, there are rubble parapet walls that splay outwards at each end, topped with square sectioned copings. A wooden gate is present on the south side of the bridge.
Local climate
Bridge at the Rookery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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