The Packhorse Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1987. A C18 Bridge.
The Packhorse Bridge
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-storey-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- The Packhorse Bridge, Nethercote Hill, Lacock
- OS grid reference
- ST 916 686
- Coordinates
- 51.4169, -2.12108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Packhorse Bridge is an 18th-century bridge that spans Byde Brook. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a humpbacked design with an ashlar parapet. The bridge has two small arches that are lined with ashlar stone. There is a projecting band located beneath the parapet. The bridge is marked as Dummer's Dridge on the Tithe Map.
Local climate
The Packhorse Bridge receives an average of 830 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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