Hawkenbury Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. A C15 Road bridge.
Hawkenbury Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dusk-pedestal-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Hawkenbury Bridge, Headcorn Road, Staplehurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 445
- Coordinates
- 51.17153, 0.57195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hawkenbury Bridge is a road bridge located partly in the civil parish of Headcorn. It dates from the 15th century and 18th century, with alterations from the 19th or 20th century. The bridge is constructed from uneven blocks of roughly coursed stone. Its parapet is made of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with grey brick dressings, dating from the 19th or 20th century. The bridge features four arches; the two southern arches are likely from the 18th century and are rounded, with ashlared soffits and voussoirs. The northern arch is similar but much lower. The second arch from the north is 4-centred and low, with ashlared voussoirs and a stone rubble soffit. There are four rectangular cutwaters made of red and grey brick from the 19th or 20th century on the east side. The bridge has been widened to the west with red and grey brick from the 19th or 20th century.
Local climate
Hawkenbury Bridge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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