Bridge Over River Cerne at Forston is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1987. Bridge.
Bridge Over River Cerne at Forston
- WRENN ID
- empty-stair-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Bridge Over River Cerne at Forston, Charminster
- OS grid reference
- SY 665 958
- Coordinates
- 50.7615, -2.476
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bridge over the River Cerne at Forston is a late 18th-century structure that provides access to Forston House. It features brick walls laid in Flemish bond topped with stone copings. The bridge has two segmental brick arches, each with a stone cutwater located both upstream and downstream. The parapet walls curve at the ends, finishing in brick pedestals.
Local climate
Bridge Over River Cerne at Forston receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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