Sheepwash Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1952. A C17 Bridge.
Sheepwash Bridge
- WRENN ID
- low-passage-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 057
- Coordinates
- 50.83136, -4.15112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheepwash Bridge is a road bridge that spans the River Torridge. It was originally built in the 17th century and underwent significant rebuilding in the 19th century. The bridge features stone rubble walls with some sections of ashlar. It has four spans, including a flood arch, and is designed with four-centred arches that have triangular cutwaters. Each arch on the east side, which is downstream, has a pilaster above it. There is a cambered stringcourse along the bridge. On the upstream side, there is a refuge above an extended cutwater, which is likely to be original, as the cutwaters extend further on this side and do not have a stringcourse. The arches are distinguished by projecting keystones, and the bridge is topped with a cambered parapet that has rounded coping stones.
Local climate
Sheepwash Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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