Road Bridge at Ngr Ss 2880 0838 is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1989. A C19 Road bridge.
Road Bridge at Ngr Ss 2880 0838
- WRENN ID
- long-stronghold-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1989
- Type
- Road bridge
- Address
- Road Bridge at Ngr Ss 2880 0838, Pancrasweek
- OS grid reference
- SS 288 083
- Coordinates
- 50.84945, -4.43336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The road bridge over the remains of the Bude canal was built between 1819 and 1823 and restored in the 20th century. It was designed by James Green, who was the engineer for the Bude Harbour and Canal Company. The bridge features a concrete roadway supported by four closely spaced cast iron arches, with cast iron centring and a wallplate. It has a wooden post and rail parapet and is set on coursed local stone abutments. The Bude canal was originally constructed to transport sea sand, which is rich in calcium carbonate, to improve the poor upland clay soils in the area. The canal was supplied by a reservoir to the north, now known as Tamar Lake, and this bridge crosses the feeder canal. The bridge is illustrated as Moreton Bridge in the work by Harris and Ellis. It is one of the few remaining features of this significant engineering project, which was notable for its use of inclined planes. The canal ceased operations in 1902.
Local climate
Road Bridge at Ngr Ss 2880 0838 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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