Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. A C19 Bridge.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- tattered-baluster-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Railway Bridge, Combe Florey
- OS grid reference
- ST 147 325
- Coordinates
- 51.08555, -3.21862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The railway bridge at Nethercot, built around 1860, carries the railway line from Taunton to Watchet. It is constructed from red sandstone and conglomerate, featuring coursed, squared, dressed masonry and an ashlar archivolt above the arch. The bridge has a single arch with a splayed base and rusticated voussoirs, but it does not have a parapet. The curved walls connect to the bank and are extended on the northeast side with quoins located about 20 meters behind Nos 1 and 2 Nethercot. Much of the sandstone used in its construction was sourced from a nearby quarry on the southwest side. This impressive bridge is part of an attractive group with Nos 1 and 2 Nethercot and is considered one of the most notable railway bridges on the West Somerset Railway, which was initiated in 1859 and completed to Watchet in 1862.
Local climate
Railway Bridge receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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