Beam Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1951. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Beam Bridge
- WRENN ID
- solitary-flagstone-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1951
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Beam Bridge, Monkleigh
- OS grid reference
- SS 473 209
- Coordinates
- 50.96738, -4.17508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beam Bridge is an aqueduct bridge over the River Torridge, built in 1824 by engineer James Green. It is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings. The bridge features five stilted semi-circular arches, which are divided by engaged Doric half-columns supported on piers. The abaci extend as a raised string course beneath the parapet.
Historically, the bridge was built to carry the Torridge Canal, a project financed by Lord Rolle, the owner of Beam House in Torrington. A plaque on the parapet commemorates this project, which involved importing limestone from the Gower Peninsula and Caldy Island for local farms. The canal was designed to transport horse-drawn tub boats between Torrington and Bideford.
Local climate
Beam Bridge receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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