Forde Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Bridge.
Forde Bridge
- WRENN ID
- fallow-screen-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Forde Bridge, Park Lane, Winsham, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 362 053
- Coordinates
- 50.84408, -2.90735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forde Bridge is a road bridge that spans the River Axe and dates from around the 17th century. It may have been built in 1824 for Sir Alexander Hood. The bridge is constructed from dressed lias stone, featuring Ham stone copings that create level, chamfered parapets. It has three roughly semi-circular arches supported by two piers in the water, which include cut-waters, along with abutments on the banks. The bridge has outward splay at each end, with an extension on the southwest corner leading towards Forde Abbey in Dorset. The east side has full-height angled cutwaters, while the west side has angled cutwaters only below the arch springing. The bridge is of single track width.
Local climate
Forde Bridge receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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