Fossend Canal Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. A C19 Road bridge.
Fossend Canal Bridge
- WRENN ID
- weathered-steeple-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Fossend Canal Bridge, Burlescombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 069 170
- Coordinates
- 50.9455, -3.32572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fossend Canal Bridge is a road bridge over the Grand Western Canal, built around 1814. It is constructed from large coursed blocks of limestone and features a parapet made of red sandstone ashlar. The bridge has a single span with an elliptical, almost round-headed, plain arch. At road level, there is a projecting plain stringcourse that follows the humpback shape of the road. The parapet above has rounded coping and curves outward at both ends, where there are shallow terminal piers that also project outward. This section of the Grand Western Canal was opened in 1814.
Local climate
Fossend Canal Bridge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% 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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