Tarr Steps is a Grade I listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1959. A Medieval Bridge.
Tarr Steps
- WRENN ID
- silent-tracery-laurel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1959
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Tarr Steps, Withypool and Hawkridge, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 867 321
- Coordinates
- 51.07715, -3.61768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tarr Steps is a clapper bridge that crosses the River Barle. It has medieval origins and has been rebuilt several times due to flood damage, with the most recent repairs occurring in 1942, 1952, and 1979. The bridge is constructed from local grit sandstone slabs, each weighing between 1 and 2 tons. It features seventeen spans and measures 55 meters in length, standing about one meter above the river.
Local climate
Tarr Steps sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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