Crook of Lune Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. A C16 Bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Crook of Lune Bridge
- WRENN ID
- vast-bonework-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1954
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Crook of Lune Bridge, Howgill Lane, Grayrigg, Westmorland and Furness, PR5 6AW
- OS grid reference
- SD 620 963
- Coordinates
- 54.36093, -2.5858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crook of Lune Bridge is a public road bridge over the River Lune, believed to date from the 16th century or earlier, with some alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed mixed rubble and features two slightly asymmetrical segmental arches made of long thin rubble with stone-slate arch-bands. These arches spring from a pier and plinth that have triangular cutwaters on both the upstream and downstream sides, which are carried up as battered triangular buttresses. The bridge has a humped and unusually narrow deck, approximately 2 meters wide, that rises from the west end and is protected by rebuilt parapets of coursed rubble, which curve outwards over splayed abutments. This bridge forms part of an ancient north-south route along Lunesdale, which was used by drovers in the 17th and 18th centuries, and it is a very picturesque feature in its setting.
Local climate
Crook of Lune Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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