Forde Bridge
FORDE BRIDGE, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118928
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Forde Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FORDE BRIDGE, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118928
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Forde Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORDE BRIDGE, PARK LANE
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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.
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:
- FORDE BRIDGE, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3621405345
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 November 2022 to enhance with details from the duplicate list entry and to reformat to current standards.
The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Winsham, in the district of South Somerset at List entry 1366418. This entry was removed from the List on 7 November 2022.
THORNCOMBE
ST 30 NE
2/73
PARK LANE
Forde Bridge
4.12.51
II
Road bridge over River Axe. Circa C17. Possibly built in 1824 for Sir Alexander Hood. Dressed lias stone with Ham stone copings to level parapets, chamfered. Three roughly semi-circular arches. Two piers in the water with cut-waters, and abutments in the banks. Outward splays at each end, extended on SW corner towards Forde Abbey, Dorset (qv). Full-height angled cutwaters on east side, on west side angled only below arch springing. Single track width.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104651
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 240
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: the legacy of the turnpikes, (1985)
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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