Grey's Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1987. Bridge.
Grey's Bridge
- WRENN ID
- western-wicket-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SY 700 908
- Coordinates
- 50.71634, -2.42607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grey's Bridge is a road bridge built in 1748 and widened in 1927. It is constructed of ashlar stone and reinforced concrete.
The bridge features three unequal spans, each with a round arch that has moulded archivolts. These arches spring from restored, pointed cutwaters, with the central arch being the widest at approximately 12 feet. Above the arches, at road level, there is a double plat-band. The name and date of the bridge, "GREYS BRIDGE 1748," are incised in contemporary lettering on an original tablet set into the parapet wall. The plain parapet wall has weathered coping and square returned wing walls over the abutments. Additionally, the parapets are stepped out at each end to create pedestrian refuges. The widened section of the bridge is made of reinforced concrete and is re-faced in the original stonework.
Local climate
Grey's Bridge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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