Old Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Bridge.
Old Bridge
- WRENN ID
- buried-storey-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Old Bridge, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 608 749
- Coordinates
- 50.55781, -3.96652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bridge is a former road bridge over the West Dart, constructed between 1772 and 1797. It is built of granite rubble with dressed granite voussoirs. The bridge features two segmental arches that spring from imposts and have projecting keystones, along with a triangular cutwater on the central pier. It has a cambered parapet. The road from Tavistock to Moretonhampstead, which this bridge served, was turnpiked by two acts in 1772. The bridge is depicted in a painting from 1797 by John Swete.
Local climate
Old Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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