Stephens Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1952. Bridge.
Stephens Bridge
- WRENN ID
- deep-joist-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Stephens Bridge, Water Lane, Headcorn
- OS grid reference
- TQ 826 443
- Coordinates
- 51.16924, 0.61055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stephen's Bridge is a road bridge built in a medieval style, located on Headcorn Water Lane. It is constructed from ragstone and features a cambered design with two plain-chamfered segmental arches. The bridge has a plain parapet with renewed brick coping. To the east, there is a cutwater that rises to create a refuge, which includes a seat or partial infilling within the parapet. The west retaining wall is supported by three buttresses. The bridge is said to be named after Archbishop Stephen Langton, who built the original bridge on this site.
Local climate
Stephens 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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