Turtle Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. A C14 Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Turtle Bridge
- WRENN ID
- other-basalt-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Turtle Bridge, Barrowden, Rutland
- OS grid reference
- SP 928 984
- Coordinates
- 52.57638, -0.63192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turtle Bridge is a bridge that may date back to the 14th century and was widened in 1793, with a parapet added in the 19th or 20th century. It is constructed of ashlar and red brick and features three arches, with stone bases and visible brick arches. The cutwaters rise to create niches in the brick and stone coped brick parapet. The bridge carries a bridleway over the River Welland and is located about 1½ miles southwest of the Church of St. Peter in Barrowden, off the road to Seaton. The Victoria County History of Rutland, Volume II, page 173, references a bridge with a similar name in Barrowden from the 13th century.
Local climate
Turtle Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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