Withypool Bridge at Ngr Ss 8452 3545 is a Grade II* listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1959. Bridge.
Withypool Bridge at Ngr Ss 8452 3545
- WRENN ID
- tenth-beam-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- 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
- Withypool Bridge at Ngr Ss 8452 3545, Withypool and Hawkridge, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 845 354
- Coordinates
- 51.10669, -3.65102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Withypool Bridge is a 19th-century road bridge over the River Barle, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as New Bridge. It was restored in 1866 by John Buslin and William Browner and Son, and again in 1983 by Somerset County Council. The bridge features flat bedded slate and red sandstone chamfered blocks that form the parapets. It has six arches with cutwaters that rise to the springers of the arches, which continue as buttresses just below the coping of the parapet. The coping is dressed flat bedded slate, and the parapets rake back, terminating with buttress piers on the northeast and southwest ends. The date 1983 is set in pebbles on the breakwater. This bridge replaced an earlier bridge located about 100 meters upstream. It is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 26B).
Local climate
Withypool Bridge at Ngr Ss 8452 3545 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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