Bridge Approximately 300 Metres North of Downton Castle
BRIDGE ABOUT 300 METRES NORTH OF DOWNTON CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Approximately 300 Metres North of Downton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE ABOUT 300 METRES NORTH OF DOWNTON CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Approximately 300 Metres North of Downton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE ABOUT 300 METRES NORTH OF DOWNTON CASTLE
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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.
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:
- BRIDGE ABOUT 300 METRES NORTH OF DOWNTON CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leintwardine
- National Grid Reference:
- SO4453375065
Details
This asset was previously listed twice also at List Entry 1081759. That entry was removed from the List on 13 December 2023.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 December 2023 to add text from the de-listed duplicate entry, to convert yards to metres and to reformat text to current standards.
SO 47 NW
2/49
LEINTWARDINE CP
Bridge approximately 300 metres north of Downton Castle
GV
II
Bridge over Stone Brook. Mid-C19. Dressed coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Central tall narrow archway with two-centred head of two chamfered orders. The archway is flanked by bartizan-style angled projections with embattled parapets which are corbelled out from the wall surface just beneath the level of the arched head and are continued to the main parapet coping. There are smaller similarly arched flood outlets and also several irregularly sized and spaced slit openings in the bridge walls. The plain parapet has a string course at its base, a ridged coping and is splayed at the north end. The south ends terminate in octagonal piers with pyramidal capping. North end of eastern parapet curves in broad north-easterly sweep. The west parapet curves into the adjacent Lodge (qv). A short wall about two metres long adjoins the outer side of both piers at right angles to the bridge.
The bridge was built as part of the major alterations of Downton Castle (qv) carried out between 1860 and 1870 when a new entrance was built on the north-west side of the building. The estate was originally approached from the south with the driveway crossing the River Teme at Castle Bridge (qv). Downton Castle is in Downton CP.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149515
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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