Pill Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Bridge.
Pill Bridge
- WRENN ID
- scarred-gallery-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Pill Bridge, Pill Bridge Lane, Long Sutton
- OS grid reference
- ST 500 233
- Coordinates
- 51.00771, -2.71395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pill Bridge is a 17th-century pack horse bridge located on Pill Bridge Lane in Ilchester. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared. The bridge features three semi-circular arches spanning the River Ivel and is only 1.3 metres wide between its high parapets, supported by two piers on each side. The first recorded bridge on this site dates back to the early 13th century and served as part of the medieval route to Long Sutton and Langport, which is now an overgrown green lane. A warehouse was documented nearby in 1699, along with a toll house that remained in existence until 1805. Pill Bridge is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No. 186).
Local climate
Pill Bridge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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