South Bridge at Water End Over the River Gade
SOUTH BRIDGE AT WATER END OVER THE RIVER GADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101225
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- South Bridge at Water End Over the River Gade
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH BRIDGE AT WATER END OVER THE RIVER GADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101225
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- South Bridge at Water End Over the River Gade
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH BRIDGE AT WATER END OVER THE RIVER GADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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:
- SOUTH BRIDGE AT WATER END OVER THE RIVER GADE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0402510319
Details
TL 01 SW
3/107
22.10.52
GREAT GADDESDEN
LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD(A4146)
Water End
South Bridge at Water End over the River Gade
(Formerly listed as Two Bridges over
River Gade)
GV
II
Road bridge over River Gade. Circa 1800 when road realigned (Branch
Johnson (1970)113), widened on E side 1976 by Herts County Council. Red
brick in English-bond with stone dressings. A humped bridge in medieval
style of 3 pointed arches each of 20ft span with 4 stone-capped
cutwaters linked by a moulded string course. Deep-chamfered brick rib to
soffit a little inside front arch. Chamfered stone dressing to plinths
from which arches spring, linked by weir under bridge and marking water
level on reconstructed upstream face. Moulded stone cappings to brick
parapets splayed at ends and terminated by octagonal brick piers.
(Branch Johnson (1970): ex inf County Surveyor's Dept)
Listing NGR: TL0402510319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 113
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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