Head Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1988. A Early C19 Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Head Bridge
- WRENN ID
- buried-gallery-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Head Bridge, King's Nympton
- OS grid reference
- SS 667 182
- Coordinates
- 50.94834, -3.89838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Head Bridge is a road bridge that spans the River Mole and was built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from dressed stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a coped concrete parapet. The bridge has three spans, each with an elliptical arch made of dressed stone voussoirs. Above the arches, there are shallow buttresses that rise above stepped, pointed cutwaters. The pilaster buttresses extend into the parapet, which includes a string course at approximately road level.
Local climate
Head 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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