Hellescott Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Hellescott Bridge
- WRENN ID
- white-slate-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Hellescott Bridge, Egloskerry
- OS grid reference
- SX 285 877
- Coordinates
- 50.66442, -4.4276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hellescott Bridge is a road bridge and causeway located in North Petherwin, part of the EgloSKERRY area. It dates from the late 18th century, with earlier abutments. The bridge was widened to the east in the late 19th century, and some of the parapets were partly rebuilt in the 20th century.
Constructed from stone rubble with granite dressings on the west face of the arch, the bridge spans the River Ottery. Originally, the roadway was only six feet wide. The dressed granite segmental arch on the west side features a large keystone, and the finely dressed abutments are likely from an earlier period. The late 19th-century widening includes a rounded slate stone rubble segmental arch. The causeway crosses lush water meadows to the south and has a series of stone rubble flood arches, which were extended to the east in the late 19th century to allow for the road widening.
Historical records by Henderson indicate that in 1809, the bridge had two nine-foot-wide arches and a roadway that was six feet wide.
Local climate
Hellescott Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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