Countess Wear Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 2004. Road bridge. 3 related planning applications.
Countess Wear Bridge
- WRENN ID
- under-arch-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 2004
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Countess Wear Bridge, Exeter, EX2 6LR
- OS grid reference
- SX 941 895
- Coordinates
- 50.69609, -3.49944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Countess Wear Bridge is a road bridge over the River Exe, built in 1770 and widened between 1935 and 1938. It is constructed from limestone rubble, featuring red sandstone arch rings and parapet coping. The concrete widening is faced in limestone rubble and red sandstone to match the original structure. The bridge has six spans, with the widening occurring on the southeast downstream side. It includes segmental arches and a wider elliptical central arch. Cutwaters are present on both sides of the piers between the arches, rising to refuges in the parapets. Historically, a weir was constructed across the River Exe at this location by the Countess of Devon in 1286. An Act was passed in 1768-1769 authorizing the bridge's construction, which was completed in 1770.
Local climate
Countess Wear Bridge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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