Serpentine Bridge
SERPENTINE BRIDGE, A177
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121514
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Serpentine Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SERPENTINE BRIDGE, A177
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- 1999-08-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01208/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121514
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Serpentine Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SERPENTINE BRIDGE, A177
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:
- SERPENTINE BRIDGE, A177
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgefield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34443 28850
Details
NZ 32 NW SEDGEFIELD A177 (west side off) 6/28A Serpentine Bridge
GV II
Bridge, c.1754, designed by James Paine for John Bourdon of Herdwick Hall, and executed by John Bell of Durham. Ashlar. A single wide elliptical arch, slightly raised in the centre, has voussoirs and a drip mould formerly carried a parapet with pierced quatrofoils, and rounded coping. Designed as part of the new land- scape garden layout created for John Bourdon. Source, James Paine by Peter Leach 1989.
Listing NGR: NZ3444328850
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112142
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leach, P, The Life and Work of James Paine, (1988)
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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