CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031877
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-2002
List Entry Name:: CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES
Statutory Address:: CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031877
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-2002
List Entry Name:: CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES
Statutory Address 1:: CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHISWICK BRIDGE AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: TQ 20263 76325

Details

TQ2076 Chiswick Bridge and attached balustrades 22/12/10131 26-SEP-02

II Arched road bridge, 1930-33. Engineer Alfred Dryland with Herbert Baker as consulting architect, and giving the bridge its distinctly Georgian character. Mass concrete footings and abutments; reinforced concrete arches of cellular construction; cladding of Portland stone. Like Twickenham Bridge it is 70 ft. wide between the parapets; three spans, the centre being 150 ft. and the shore arches 125 ft.; one c60 ft. roadway arch on each bank. Pedestrian access to broad pavement by handsome brick stairs; riverside walkway spanned by arches which on the Hounslow side provide storage for boat club. On line of piers a polygonal viewing platform has been provided to each side. The centre span is the longest concrete arch of any bridge spanning the Thames.

Sources: Phillips, Thames Crossings, 1981, 174-9; Roads and Road Construction, June 1932, VI, 170-1; Engineer, 1933, CLVI, 17; Engineering, June 1932, CXXXIII, 665.

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Legacy System number:: 489771
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.