Peacock Bridge Over River Frome, East Drive To Frampton House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

FRAMPTON SY 6194, 6294, 6394, 6195, FRAMPTON PARK 6295, 6395 (comp.)

9/47 Peacock Bridge over river Frome, east drive 26-1-56 to Frampton House

- II*

Bridge over river (east drive to Frampton House). Late C18. Stone, with brick soffits to the arches, 3 spans. The middle arch and smaller flanking arches have segmental heads with moulded archivolts. Circular (Coade stone) panels in the spandrels. The piers have rounded cut-waters capped with reeded half-domes.

The parapet is balustraded (bulbous balusters), with panelled dies over the piers, and a continuous cornice at road level. The curving approach-walls end in cylindrical moulded stone pedestals.

(RCHM Dorset I, p.116 (2).)

Listing NGR: SY6327094616

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0137 IOE Records taken by Derek Beauchamp; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Derek Beauchamp. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project