Shipley Bridge
SHIPLEY BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107360
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shipley Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SHIPLEY BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107360
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shipley Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIPLEY BRIDGE
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:
- SHIPLEY BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Brent
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 68094 62874
Details
SOUTH BRENT SX 66 SE
5/194 Shipley Bridge - - II
Road bridge over River Avon, at this point a moorland brook. Probably C18, widened in C19. Granite rubble. single span round arch with dressed granite recessed arch ring. Parapets with large roughly squared granite coping stones. This bridge was originally a narrow pack-horse bridge and widened in C19 on the north upstream side. It was described by the Rev Samuel Rowe as a "single arched moorstone bridge" but according to James Coreen, the County Surveyor, it was "a very rough bridge thrown across from two rocks". Reference: C Henderson and E Jervoise. "Old Devon Bridges", page 24.
Listing NGR: SX6809462874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 24
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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