Bridge Over the Great Stour is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Bridge.

Bridge Over the Great Stour

WRENN ID
old-pedestal-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1980
Type
Bridge
Address
Bridge Over the Great Stour, Fordwich Road
OS grid reference
TR 179 598
Coordinates
51.29562, 1.12503
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The bridge over the Great Stour is an 18th-century brick structure featuring stone coping. It has a round arch that spans the river, with a keystone at its center. On the east side, there is a stone tablet supported by brackets and topped with a cornice.

Local climate

Bridge Over the Great Stour sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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