Forge Bridge and Weir
FORGE BRIDGE AND WEIR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081798
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Bridge and Weir
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE BRIDGE AND WEIR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081798
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Bridge and Weir
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE BRIDGE AND WEIR
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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:
- FORGE BRIDGE AND WEIR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrington
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leintwardine
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4539674990
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Leintwardine at List entry 1301691. This entry was removed from the List on 19 December 2023.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 December 2023 to remove references to duplicate list entry, to add text about weir from de-listed duplicate list entry, measurements converted to metric and to reformat text to current standards.
BURRINGTON CP
SO 45397500
SO 47 SE
4/7
Forge Bridge and Weir
11.6.59
II*
Accommodation bridge over the River Teme. Circa 1772. Sandstone ashlar and coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Main elliptical arch-way about 11 metres to south of which is a similar smaller archway over an old mill race. Arches are flanked by quadrant piers and have embattled parapets above corbel tables. Main archway is about 20 metres long and smaller archway is about ten 9 metres long. The linking section of bridge has a parapet with a ridged coping. At each end of the bridge, the parapet is splayed, also has a ridged coping and terminates in a square pier with a shallow pyramidal capping. Beneath the linking section of the bridge and north of the main archway is a round-arched flood outlet. The bridge is about 73 metres long in total and about 4.5 metres wide.
The bridge stands on the Downton Castle (qv) estate and may also have been designed by Richard Payne Knight together with Burrington Bridge (qv) and Castle Bridge (qv) upstream. The surveyor of the bridge is recorded as being called Pritchard, possibly Thomas Farnolls Pritchard who designed the Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale 1775 - 77, and built after his death in 1777.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 118
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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