Riverford Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Bridge.
Riverford Bridge
- WRENN ID
- lone-gutter-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Riverford Bridge, Staverton
- OS grid reference
- SX 771 637
- Coordinates
- 50.46049, -3.73174
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverford Bridge is a road bridge over the River Dart, built in the early 19th century with later alterations in the late 19th century. It is constructed from cement washed stone rubble and features three large spans with elliptical arches made of rusticated granite voussoirs. The bridge has rusticated granite piers at the springing of the arches and cut-waters on splayed piers, which include refuges in the parapet above. There is a stringcourse at road level and the parapet has plain granite coping. The parapets at the northeast end were raised around 1872 when a railway bridge was built at that end. The bridge is also known as Hood or Emmets Bridge and was described as "comparatively modern" by Henderson and Jervoise in their work on Old Devon Bridges.
Local climate
Riverford 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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