Gatcombe Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Road viaduct.
Gatcombe Bridge
- WRENN ID
- nether-footing-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Road viaduct
- Address
- Gatcombe Bridge, Littlehempston
- OS grid reference
- SX 817 625
- Coordinates
- 50.45103, -3.66639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gatcombe Bridge is a road viaduct that spans the valley of Gatcombe Brook. It was built in the early to mid 19th century. The bridge features solid stone rubble walls that are pierced by tall round arches made of dressed stone, with buttresses that have set-offs between the arches. The parapets are capped with stone rubble in a saddle-back style and end in squat piers. Although the turnpike is indicated on Benjamin Donn's 1765 map of Devon, this bridge serves as a 19th-century replacement.
Local climate
Gatcombe Bridge receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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