Bridge Over River Beane
BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE, WALKERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089075
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over River Beane
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE, WALKERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089075
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over River Beane
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE, WALKERN 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:
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE, WALKERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watton-at-Stone
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29722 19766
Details
WATTON-AT-STONE WALKERN ROAD TL 21 NE Watton-at-Stone 3/200 Bridge over River Beane - - II
Road bridge. c.1830. Caleb Hitch's patent brick with some later stock brick repair. Stone dressings. Triple segmental arch, that to centre larger. Stone capped cutwaters to both sides. Slightly splayed to banks over outer arches. Pilaster strips on parapets at angles of splays. End piers with moulded stone caps. Curved abutment walls at ends. Bands to parapets, that to E largely rebuilt. Segmental brick coping to parapets. Hitch bricks, patented in 1828, are 1 foot long by 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep with interlocking flanges and resemble rat-trap bond. (W Branch Johnson, Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, 1970).
Listing NGR: TL2972219766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356310
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970)
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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