Basin Bridge
BASIN BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114019
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Basin Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BASIN BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114019
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Basin Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASIN 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:
- BASIN BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96206 32389
Details
SP 9632-9732 WOBURN WOBURN PARK 10/180 23.1.61 Basin Bridge - I Bridge Circa 1770 by Sir william Chambers for John 4th Duke of Bedford. Substantially reworked by Humphry Repton before 1813. Ashlar and red brick. Approximately 30 metres long and 7 metres wide, splaying out at both ends. Separates Basin Pond from New Pond. NW elevation (towards Basin Pond): 3 semi-circular arches. Rusticated stonework, the lower courses and voussoirs vermiculated. Terminates in large square piers of smooth ashlarwork. Surmounted by cornice and low balustraded parapet with small piers at intervals. Red brick vaulting under arches. SE elevation: probably originally similar to other elevation, but only balustrade and terminal piers visible since banking up of land and raising of water level by Repton. Beds. Record Office: CRT 130 Woburn 33, Notes of the Basin Bridge compiled by Marie P. G. Draper, Archivist to Bedford Estates.
Listing NGR: SP9620632389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,
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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