New Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Road bridge.
New Bridge
- WRENN ID
- scarred-finial-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- New Bridge, A 316, Little Torrington
- OS grid reference
- SS 499 183
- Coordinates
- 50.9454, -4.13691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Bridge is a road bridge over the River Torridge, built between 1843 and 1846 by Lord Rolle. It features coursed rubble stone construction and has three massive round-headed arches with triangular cutwaters positioned low on the piers. The bridge includes a cambered stringcourse and a parapet.
Local climate
New Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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