Monks' Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. A C17, C18 House, former school.
Monks' Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- muted-portal-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House, former school
- Address
- Monks' Bridge House, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 622 148
- Coordinates
- 54.52782, -2.58514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Monks' Bridge House is a house that was originally a school, built in 1666 and remodelled in 1784 for William Dent. It features two inscriptions: one in Roman lettering on the frieze stating, "THIS SCHOOL was rebuilt by a private Benefactor in the year of our LORD 1784," and another in script on the door lintel reading, "Ingredere ut proficia." The building is constructed of ashlar with a chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins, while the gable ends are made of coursed, squared rubble. It has a graduated slate roof with stone copings and kneelers, and a 'T'-shaped plan. The house is a single storey with a plank door set in a pedimented architrave, accompanied by a single fixed window to the right and a paired window in the wing on the left, all featuring impost blocks and keystones in semicircular-headed stone surrounds. Large semicircular-headed casements are present on the gable ends. Additionally, there is a corniced stone chimney over the south gable, a bellcote over the west, and an ornate ball finial over the east.
Local climate
Monks' Bridge House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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