Blackwell Bridge
BLACKWELL BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121318
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwell Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKWELL BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/00598/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121318
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwell Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKWELL BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
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:
- BLACKWELL BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stapleton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2702112601
Details
The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1131341. This entry was removed from the List on 11 May 2018.
1.
5195
NZ 21 SE 15/223
6.6.52.
BRIDGE ROAD
(West End)
Blackwell Bridge
(Formerly listed in Darlington Rural District)
II
2.
1832, Architect John Green of Newcastle. Sandstone ashlar; 3 segmental arches
With band above. Long parapet with plain coping, ends swept out to finish in low,
half-octagonal piers.
Arches have paired, pointed voussoirs and a side chamfer whose face is in plane
with the sides of pointed cutwaters, These have capping shaped like an up-turned
keel, above a band. Impost band along abutments. Ashlar intrados rusticated shallowly
in lower courses, as are cutwaters.
The bridge has been doubled in width recently and the new southern span is an exact
reproduction of the original except for the rustications.
Listing NGR: NZ 27021 12601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110555
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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