Whitney Toll Bridge
WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082465
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Whitney Toll Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082465
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitney Toll Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
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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:
- WHITNEY TOLL BRIDGE, B4350
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifford
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitney-on-Wye
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2588647428
Details
This asset was previously listed twice also at List Entry 1099494. That entry was removed from the List on 18 December 2023.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 December 2023 to correct typo, remove references to duplicate list entry, remove text duplicated from Selected Sources and to reformat text to current standards.
WHITNEY ON WYE CP
SO 24 NE
5/113
B 4350
Whitney Toll Bridge
12.3.81
[formerly listed as Toll Bridge and Toll House]
GV
II
Toll bridge across River Wye. Circa 1780, part rebuilt 1797, for Tomkyns Dew, Lord of the Manor of Whitney, and part rebuilt by the Longfellows of Brecon and John Phillips of Hay. Part coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, part timber. Originally a bridge of five stone bays, the central three bays were destroyed by a flood and rebuilt in timber. Outer stone bays have elliptical archways, massive buttresses reinforcing the inner piers and are surmounted by tall plain parapets which are splayed at the ends. The central timber section consists of two double pontoons with cutwaters clad in open timberwork and timber braces to the underside of the roadway which has open railings on each side.
The Whitney Toll Bridge Act of 1780 authorised the building of a stone bridge across the Wye. Three bridges were destroyed by floodwater before an Act of 1796 authorised the rebuilding of the bridge in timber and stone. The Bridge is the only extant timber bridge on the River Wye.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 320
Gorvett, D, Bridge Over the River Wye, (1984)
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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