ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB)

ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB), ASPENDEN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101361
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB)
Statutory Address:: ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB), ASPENDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101361
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB)
Statutory Address 1:: ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB), ASPENDEN ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ASPENDEN BRIDGE (OVER RIVER RIB), ASPENDEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Buntingford
National Grid Reference:: TL 36339 28549

Details

TL 32NE ASPENDEN ASPENDEN ROAD

4/2 Aspenden Bridge (over River Rib) -

- II

Road bridge over River Rib. Plaque on SE parapet wall reads 'ASPENDEN BRIDGE/BUILT BY/PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION/AD1878/W WATSON ESQ.' Red brick abuttments supporting parallel iron I-beams as deck with jack arches and tie-rods between beams. 4-bay trellis open work iron balustrade, with short brick parapet walls over the abuttments with blue brick and stone copings. Projecting ramped wing walls in red brick along sides of river rebuilt c1983. Large cast iron plaque on NE parapet giving notice of weight restriction by the County Council dated 1899, No '256'. (Branch Johnson (1970) 162).

Listing NGR: TL3633928549

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Legacy System number:: 159707
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 162

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.