Hertsfield Bridges

HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1060786
Date first listed:
25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:
Hertsfield Bridges
Statutory Address:
HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1060786
Date first listed:
25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:
Hertsfield Bridges
Statutory Address 1:
HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD
Statutory Address:
HERTSFIELD BRIDGES, CHART HILL ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Chart Sutton
National Grid Reference:
TQ 78250 46762

Details

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA CHART HILL ROAD TQ 74 NE 2/8 Herstfield Bridges 25.7.52 II*

Partly in Staplehurst civil parish. Bridge over several streams of river Beult. Probably C14 or C15, with later alterations. Ragstone. Low parapet rebuilt in buff brick with engineering brick coping. 6 low arches; 2 pairs towards centre and single arch towards each end. Triangular heads to arches, with chamfered jambs and heads to east and chamfered heads to west. Ashlared soffits. No cutwaters. Road about 10 feet wide. Bridge approximately 300 feet long. Coping surmounted by wooden posts with iron rails. Broad refuge between two central pairs of arches.

Listing NGR: TQ7825046762

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
174468
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.

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