Fossend Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1988. A Victorian Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Fossend Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- third-corridor-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Fossend Railway Bridge, Burlescombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 072 169
- Coordinates
- 50.94467, -3.32131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fossend Railway Bridge is a road bridge over the railway, built around 1844 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Constructed from large blocks of grey limestone, it features a single span fly bridge across a railway cutting with a plain segmental arch. At road level, there is a plain projecting stringcourse, and the parapet above has rounded coping. The parapet walls curve at each end to shallow terminal piers that project slightly outward. This section of the Bristol and Exeter Railway was opened in 1844.
Local climate
Fossend Railway 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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