Road Bridge Over River Asker is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Bridge.
Road Bridge Over River Asker
- WRENN ID
- strange-chimney-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Road Bridge Over River Asker, Loders
- OS grid reference
- SY 496 940
- Coordinates
- 50.7441, -2.71543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Road Bridge over the River Asker is an 18th-century structure, with a date partially visible on the east parapet reading 17(7)?. It features dressed stone walls and flat chamfered coping-stones. The bridge has one semi-circular arch made of dressed stone voussoirs, with a projecting key at the center. The parapet walls slope back down the lane on each side of the bridge, forming the boundary of the road. The bridge is of single track width.
Local climate
Road Bridge Over River Asker receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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