SHIPLEY BRIDGE

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107360
Date first listed:
27-May-1986
Statutory Address:
SHIPLEY BRIDGE

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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.

End of official listing

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