Steps Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1988. Bridge.
Steps Bridge
- WRENN ID
- winter-loft-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Steps Bridge, Dunsford, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 804 883
- Coordinates
- 50.68219, -3.69303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps Bridge is a road bridge over the River Teign, built in 1816 by Edward Taylor of Exeter and George Weatherdon of Newton Bushel. It is constructed from granite ashlar and features three spans with parapets, shallow segmental arches, cutwaters on the middle piers, and pilasters on the outer piers. The arches spring from vertical piers with plain imposts that continue as a string course around the keeled domed cutwaters of the middle piers and the outer pier pilasters. Above the cutwaters are pilasters, and below the parapets is a platband that has neat granite caps. The bridge has a slight curve at either end, terminating in pilasters that rise above the level of the parapet and are capped separately. According to a 1952 description, the bridge is a 19th-century restoration of a 16th-century structure.
Local climate
Steps Bridge receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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