Withypool Bridge at NGR SS 8452 3545

WITHYPOOL BRIDGE AT NGR SS 8452 3545

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1057969
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1959
Statutory Address:
WITHYPOOL BRIDGE AT NGR SS 8452 3545
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Date:
2001-07-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1057969
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1959
Statutory Address 1:
WITHYPOOL BRIDGE AT NGR SS 8452 3545

Location

Statutory Address:
WITHYPOOL BRIDGE AT NGR SS 8452 3545

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Withypool and Hawkridge
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 84512 35451

Details

SS83NW WITHYPOOL CP WITHYPOOL VILLAGE

12/165 Withypool Bridge at NGR SS 8452 3545 6.4.59 II*

Shown on OS map as New Bridge. Road bridge over River Barle, C19, restored in 1866 by John Buslin and William Browner and Son, and in 1983 by Somerset County Council. Flat bedded slate, red sandstone chamfered blocks terminating parapets. Six arch bridge, cutwaters between rising to springers of arches continued as buttresses to just below coping of parapet, dressed flat bedded slate to form saddle back coping, parapets raking back and terminating with buttress piers on north east and south west returns. Date 1983 set in pebbles on breakwater. This bridge replaced an earlier bridge some 100 m upstream. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 26B). (Photograph in NMR.)

Listing NGR: SS8451235451

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265580
Legacy System:
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