Balder Bridge
BALDER BRIDGE, B 6277
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121041
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Balder Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BALDER BRIDGE, B 6277
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121041
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Balder Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALDER BRIDGE, B 6277
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:
- BALDER BRIDGE, B 6277
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunderthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00914 20031
Details
COTHERSTONE B 6277 NZ 02 SW 11/35 Balder Bridge 12/1/67 (previously listed in the Civil Parish of Hunderthwaite) II* Road bridge over the River Balder. Probably C15, rebuilt c.1681, upstream side widened 1896, downstream parapet and upstream face partly rebuilt in 1983. Sandstone ashlar with snecked and rock-faced rebuilt sections.
Roadway on 4 medieval ribs; 2 similar ribs added to upstream side in 1896. Downstream face: depressed-pointed arch of 2 chamfered orders; band, with chamfered soffit, raked to either side above arch; similarly raked, flat-coped parapet. Upstream face has similar arch. Horizontal parapet, with raking end sections, defined by band and flat coping; central corbelled refuge.
This bridge straddles the parishes of Cotherstone and Hunderthwaite.
E Jervoise. The Ancient Bridgesof The North of England, 1931 p 48.
Listing NGR: NZ0091420031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 48
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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