Underley Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1983. Bridge.
Underley Bridge
- WRENN ID
- low-flue-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1983
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Underley Bridge, Underley Park, Barbon, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 609 807
- Coordinates
- 54.22066, -2.60089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Underley Bridge is a bridge over the River Lune, built in 1872 for the Earl of Bective. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a parapet. The bridge has two double-chamfered segmental arches with four ribs, along with a smaller segmental arch at the north-east end designed to manage flood water, which includes hoodmoulds.
There is a pier between the two equal arches that has triangular cutwaters, which are chamfered back to create canted refuges. The flanking abutments are also canted, with the north-east abutment featuring a triangular cutwater on the upstream side. The bridge has corbelled embattled parapets that rise to the abutments and refuges, with loopholes present in the abutments. The smaller arch is adorned with panels that display armorial bearings above, along with an embattled parapet.
The refuges have dates inscribed on the insides of the parapets, showing 1872 on the south-east side and 1875 on the north-west side. The bridge was constructed at a cost of £10,000 on the Underley Park estate, and its design is inspired by that of Devil's Bridge, mimicking its rhythm.
Local climate
Underley Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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