Five Arch Bridge at Ngr St 2695 2533 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Bridge.
Five Arch Bridge at Ngr St 2695 2533
- WRENN ID
- empty-gravel-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Five Arch Bridge at Ngr St 2695 2533, Ruishton
- OS grid reference
- ST 269 252
- Coordinates
- 51.02206, -3.0432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Five Arch Bridge is a disused railway bridge over the River Tone, built in 1863 by Company Engineer Francis Fox. It features squared and irregularly coursed punched lias with Bath stone dressings. The bridge has a five arch span with shallow arches and rusticated archivolts. The piers rest on boat-shaped pontoons in the river, supported by raking abutments. There are regular projections above the water level on the piers, though some are broken off. It has a flat string course and flat coping, both made of Bath stone, with the coping partly missing on the east side. At the time of the survey in April 1984, both ends of the bridge were obscured by ivy. The outer arches span the bank, likely due to the later embankment of the river. This bridge once carried the branch line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to Chard, which closed in 1962.
Local climate
Five Arch Bridge at Ngr St 2695 2533 receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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