Cound Stank Bridge
COUND STANK BRIDGE, COUNDSTANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055563
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cound Stank Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- COUND STANK BRIDGE, COUNDSTANK
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08078/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055563
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cound Stank Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUND STANK BRIDGE, COUNDSTANK
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:
- COUND STANK BRIDGE, COUNDSTANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cound
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54793 05446
Details
COUND C.P. COUNDSTANK SJ 50 NW SJ 5480 0545 3/91 Cound Stank Bridge II
Bridge. Early C18,on the site of an earlier bridge. Red sandstone ashlar. 2 segmental arches with chanelled-rusticated voussoirs; central triangular cutwaters with broach caps, central and end piers rising to moulded cornice and parapet; shaped brackets flanking central pier and supporting cornice; half-H datestones to parapets above central pier, but inscription illegible at time of survey (April 1985); diagonal abutment retaining walls with plat bands and square end piers with pyramidal copings. Southern retaining wall extended probably in C19 in dressed sandstone. The bridge carries the Cross Houses-Pitchford road over the Cound Brook. Cound Stank bridge was first mentioned in 1682. V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.61.
Listing NGR: SJ5479305446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1908), 61
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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