Turn Bridge
TURN BRIDGE, SNAITH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083328
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Turn Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- TURN BRIDGE, SNAITH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14397/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083328
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Turn Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURN BRIDGE, SNAITH ROAD
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.
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:
- TURN BRIDGE, SNAITH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Snaith and Cowick
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rawcliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 66822 21460
Details
SNAITH AND COWICK SNAITH ROAD SE 62 SE East Cowick 3/92 Turn Bridge 14.2.67 GV II Bridge. C18. Tooled sandstone ashlar with some rock-faced ashlar dressings. Triple-arched bridge with abutments splayed out to roadway entrances. 3 bays, central bay breaks forward. Rock-faced ashlar plinth with stepped-in upper course of smooth-faced ashlar. Central keyed rusticated round arch, single side arches within plinth, with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs. Band at original road level, coped parapet between cylindrical piers with square bases, raised band and domed caps. Central tunnel vault has chamfered rustication. Lower sections of bridge largely obscured by soil (side arches only visible to north); roadway raised to either side. Spans the Old River Don, now a small stream. This branch of the Don was improved by Cornelius Vermuyden in the 1620s, and in further improvements of 1726 this section was by-passed by a new cut to the south- east.
Listing NGR: SE6682221460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164953
- 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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