Aldwark Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1988. Bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Aldwark Bridge
- WRENN ID
- idle-turret-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Aldwark Bridge, Boat Lane, YO26 9SJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 467 621
- Coordinates
- 54.05345, -1.28804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aldwark Bridge is a toll bridge built in the mid-18th century, with some parts replaced in the late 19th century. It features an iron frame with timber decking and includes one surviving brick arch supported by a sandstone cutwater. The flood arches are made of red brick in a loose English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings. The abutment walls and piers on the Aldwark bank are constructed from sandstone and brick.
The bridge has a flat, four-span design supported by tall, slender columns, with semicircular brick arches positioned between pilaster piers that have round-arched recessed panels. The arch on the Aldwark side is skewed and spans part of the river. There are arcades of semicircular flood arches between the pilaster piers, featuring flat, tooled coping on each bank. The arcade on the Aldwark bank ends in splayed walls with flat coping, ramping up from the piers that have flat caps. The bridge statute was approved in 1768, and the central part of the bridge was washed away in a flood in 1880.
Local climate
Aldwark Bridge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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