Lugg Bridge

Lugg Bridge, Ford Street, Stapleton, Herefordshire

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Overview

Road bridge. C17, with late C20 alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076992
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:: Lugg Bridge
Statutory Address:: Lugg Bridge, Ford Street, Stapleton, Herefordshire

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076992
Date first listed:: 16-Oct-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Jan-2018
List Entry Name:: Lugg Bridge
Statutory Address 1:: Lugg Bridge, Ford Street, Stapleton, Herefordshire

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Lugg Bridge, Ford Street, Stapleton, Herefordshire

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stapleton
National Grid Reference:: SO3165164616

Summary

Road bridge. C17, with late C20 alterations.

Reasons for Designation

Lugg Bridge in Stapleton, Herefordshire is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a well-constructed example of a post-medieval, multi-span road bridge with semi-circular arches and triangular cutwaters illustrating post-medieval bridge building techniques.

Historic interest:

* despite later alterations, its post-medieval characteristics and form remain evident, retaining a good degree of historic fabric.

History

Lugg Bridge, a road bridge over the River Lugg connecting Stapleton in Herefordshire, England with Presteigne in Powys, Wales, appears to have been built in the C17. In the late C20 the bridge was strengthened, and following the lowering of the river bed to alleviate flooding, concrete ‘aprons’ were added around the base of the cutwaters.

Details

Road bridge. C17, with late C20 alterations.

MATERIALS: built of roughly coursed sandstone.

DESCRIPTION: the road bridge spans the River Lugg, connecting Stapleton in Herefordshire, England with Presteigne in Powys, Wales. The bridge comprises three semi-circular arches with voussoirs. The central arch is flanked by full-height triangular cutwaters to both the down and upstream sides; these support refuges above. The parapets have plain, flat, coping stones.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 149171
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brooks, A, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (2012), 604
Websites
Summary Description of a Listed Building: Lugg Bridge (8832), accessed 4 December 2012 from http://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=8832
Other
Lugg Bridge, Stapleton. SMR No. 217 (Herefordshire SMR)

Legal

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