Drakeford Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1955. Bridge.
Drakeford Bridge
- WRENN ID
- endless-porch-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1955
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Drakeford Bridge, Bovey Tracey, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 789 801
- Coordinates
- 50.60829, -3.71206
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drakeford Bridge is a bridge over the River Bovey, built in 1684 or earlier and widened in 1809 by James Green, the county surveyor. It is constructed of granite and features a single elliptical arch. The downstream side of the arch, which likely dates from the original 1684 construction, has fairly roughly-shaped voussoirs. Above this arch, the parapet is slightly corbelled out and made of granite rubble, topped with a rounded coping. On the inner face of the parapet, which is made of granite ashlar, there is a worn granite tablet that appears to read: 'This 1684 bridge was repaired the....' The upstream arch seems to be part of the 1809 widening, with better-cut voussoirs, and its parapet is similar to the downstream side, faced with granite ashlar only towards the road.
Local climate
Drakeford Bridge receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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