Black Monkey Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Bridge.
Black Monkey Bridge
- WRENN ID
- grey-wattle-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Black Monkey Bridge, Old Cleeve
- OS grid reference
- ST 032 418
- Coordinates
- 51.16754, -3.38547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Black Monkey Bridge is a railway bridge built around 1860. It is constructed from square and coursed punched red sandstone, featuring a rusticated surround to the arched opening made of voussoirs that alternate between red and lighter colored blocks. The bridge has raking buttresses that rise to a parapet with stone coping. At the base of the archivault, there is a rusticated dado, while the archivault itself is made of ashlar. The bridge is topped with square and diamond-shaped iron tiles. It spans a stream and footpath and is noted as one of the best bridges on the West Somerset Railway line.
Local climate
Black Monkey 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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