Rochdale Canal Branch Arm Halfpenny Bridge
ROCHDALE CANAL BRANCH ARM HALFPENNY BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031919
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rochdale Canal Branch Arm Halfpenny Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BRANCH ARM HALFPENNY BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031919
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rochdale Canal Branch Arm Halfpenny Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BRANCH ARM HALFPENNY BRIDGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BRANCH ARM HALFPENNY BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9012912704
Details
SD 91 SW ROCHDALE ROCHDALE CANAL BRANCH
ARM
7/96 Halfpenny Bridge
22.2.1977 (formerly listed under
Oldham Road (West Side))
G.V. II
Foot bridge. 1831. Wrought and cast iron, stone and brick.
A shallow segmental riveted girder supports another which
forms the road level. Parapet of stout cast iron railings
with crested lattice panels. At west end three fluted
column cast iron posts at the head of a flight of stone
steps with thick rusticated side walls. The road bed, of
York stone paving, continues into a cobbled path at east
end. The bridge formerly crossed the Rochdale Canal Branch
Arm and is of particular interest as a rare survival of a
toll bridge over a canal. Plaque commemorates restoration
of 1978.
Listing NGR: SD9012912704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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