Brancepeth Bridge

BRANCEPETH BRIDGE, A 690

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120759
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
Brancepeth Bridge
Statutory Address:
BRANCEPETH BRIDGE, A 690

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120759
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
Brancepeth Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
BRANCEPETH BRIDGE, A 690

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.

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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:
BRANCEPETH BRIDGE, A 690

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brancepeth
National Grid Reference:
NZ 22158 37728

Details

BRANCEPETH A 690 NZ 2237 22153773 (East side, off) 15/1 Brancepeth Bridge 25/10/74 (formerly listed as Brancepeth Old Bridge) II

Road bridge over Stockley Burn. Early-mid C19 rebuilding of earlier bridge. Sandstone ashlar arch and parapets, rock-faced abutments and rubble end walls. Gothic style. High pointed arch under drip-mould flanked by wide battered abutments. Band at road level is dentilled above arch. Embattled parapets between slightly higher end sections which break forward over abutments. Battered end walls with quoins and rendered coping. This bridge straddles the parishes of Brancepeth and Crook-and-Willington.

Listing NGR: NZ2215937728

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Legacy System number:
109883
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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