Bickham Bridge Bickham Bridge (Formerly Under the Parish of North Huish)

BICKHAM BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1108342
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:
Bickham Bridge Bickham Bridge (Formerly Under the Parish of North Huish)
Statutory Address:
BICKHAM BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1108342
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:
Bickham Bridge Bickham Bridge (Formerly Under the Parish of North Huish)
Statutory Address 1:
BICKHAM BRIDGE
Statutory Address 2:
BICKHAM BRIDGE (FORMERLY UNDER THE PARISH OF NORTH HUISH)

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BICKHAM BRIDGE
Statutory Address:
BICKHAM BRIDGE (FORMERLY UNDER THE PARISH OF NORTH HUISH)

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Diptford
National Grid Reference:
SX 72585 55385

Details

DIPTFORD SX75Nll 4/192 Bickham Bridge (formerly under the parish of North 9.2.61 Huish) GV II*

Road bridge over River Avon. Probably circa C16 or early C17. Slate rubble with dressed slate arches. 2-span bridge with round arches having recessed arch rings, the outer ring is chamfered and the arches spring from chamfered imports. Curators on the central pier on both the upstream and the downstream sides have triangular refuges in the parapets. The parapets are made of dressed vertical slates with deep lacing slates at intervals. The parapets splay out at either end over the abutments. The carriageway over the bridge is about 3.5 metres wide. Henderson and Jervoise and the former provisional list erroneously state that the bridge has 3 spans. Bickham Bridge is situated on the parish boundary and partly within North Huish parish before the recent boundary changes. It is now entirely within Diptford. Source: Henderson, C. and Jervoise, E - Old Devon Bridges pp 26 and 27

Listing NGR: SX7258555385

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
101107
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 26 27

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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