Blackpool Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1991. Bridge.
Blackpool Bridge
- WRENN ID
- narrow-gutter-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1991
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Blackpool Bridge, Stoke Fleming
- OS grid reference
- SX 852 478
- Coordinates
- 50.31965, -3.61306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blackpool Bridge is a road bridge over a stream known as Blackpool Lake, likely built in the 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations from the early 19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble and features a small segmental arch, along with a smaller round flood arch on the east side. The arches are made with dressed slate voussoirs. The south side of the bridge is corbelled out over the main arch, possibly due to road widening. The road level is significantly higher than the arches, but the parapets are low, featuring vertical dressed slate coping with vertical slate lacing. Improvements to the bridge may have been carried out for the Knightsbridge-Dartmouth Turnpike Trust. In 1809, Jones Green, the County Surveyor of Bridges, noted that the bridge was 4 feet wide, suggesting that an earlier bridge may be buried beneath the later rebuilding.
Local climate
Blackpool Bridge receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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