Zeal Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1986. Bridge.
Zeal Bridge
- WRENN ID
- wild-crypt-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Zeal Bridge, South Brent, South Hams
- OS grid reference
- SX 679 624
- Coordinates
- 50.44689, -3.86172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Zeal Bridge is a road bridge over Bala Brook, a moorland brook that is a tributary of the River Avon. It was built in 1810 and widened in the 20th century. The bridge is constructed from granite rubble and features a wide single span with a shallow segmental arch. The arch has a recessed arch ring made of dressed granite voussoirs. On the west upstream side, there is a plain square tablet above the arch that displays the date 1810 in large serif figures. The parapets are topped with roughly squared granite coping stones. The bases of the piers have been reinforced with concrete, and the downstream east side has been widened with a concrete beam.
Local climate
Zeal Bridge receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% 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 91% 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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