Old Bow Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. Bridge.
Old Bow Bridge
- WRENN ID
- strange-mantel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Old Bow Bridge, Love Lane, Bickington
- OS grid reference
- SX 794 724
- Coordinates
- 50.53904, -3.70213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bow Bridge is a bridge dating from the late 17th century or possibly earlier, constructed of granite rubble. It features a single, slightly pointed arch, with roughly shaped voussoirs on each side. The bridge has rough parapets, which are likely rebuilt, but the downstream side has a parapet that is slightly corbelled over the head of the arch and extends a short distance to the south-west. On the inner face of the downstream parapet, facing the road, there is a tablet made of Devonian limestone with a badly worn inscription that appears to read: "THIS BRIDGE REPARED..COUMTY IN 1698" (though it could also be 1688). There seem to be some names at the bottom of the inscription. According to G. Jones, the bridge was widened to its current width of 12 feet in 1812, although there is no clear structural evidence of this alteration. Approximately 140 meters to the north-east, on the south-east side of Love Lane, there is a boundary stone that marks the extent of the roadway leading to the bridge, which was to be maintained by the county; this stone is separately listed.
Local climate
Old Bow 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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