CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY

CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY, HENLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118186
Date first listed:: 23-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY
Statutory Address:: CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY, HENLEY ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118186
Date first listed:: 23-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY
Statutory Address 1:: CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY, HENLEY 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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Location

Statutory Address:: CONWAY BRIDGE, AT FOOT OF HAPPY VALLEY, HENLEY ROAD

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

District:: Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Remenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 77738 81429

Details

REMENHAM HENLEY ROAD SU 78 SE 1/20 Conway Bridge, at foot of Happy Valley 26.1.67 G.V. II Road bridge 1763 designed by Thomas Pitt, first Lord Camelford (Colvin) Engineer, Reverend Humphrey Gainsborough, brother of Thomas Gainsborough. Carrying the Henley-Wargrave road, a single arch of cyclopian blocks in imitation of rockwork through which can be seen the River Thomas. The rockwork of the bridge and approach walls is said to have come from Reading Abbey. Built for General Conway of Park Place. VCH Vol.III.p.163. B.O.E. Berkshire p.193.

Listing NGR: SU7773881429

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Legacy System number:: 41270
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 163
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 193

Legal

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