Taw Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Bridge.
Taw Bridge
- WRENN ID
- former-gallery-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Taw Bridge, Eggesford
- OS grid reference
- SS 682 114
- Coordinates
- 50.8872, -3.87398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taw Bridge is a road bridge over the River Taw, built around 1830. It is constructed from coursed blocks of local iron stone with rock-faced ashlar detailing and features a replacement concrete coping. The bridge has vertical abutments supporting a single segmental arch, where some of the ashlar voussoirs are incised to resemble two headers for a uniform appearance. A plain string course slopes slightly towards the center at road level. The parapet is made of ashlar only on the inside edges. At both ends, the walls curve outward to terminal piers that project externally. The design of this bridge is very similar to others in the area, such as Lapford Bridge and Bury Bridge in Morchard Bishop, which have plaques commemorating their construction in 1830 by builder Roger Tyler for the Trustees of the Exeter Turnpike.
Local climate
Taw Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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