Short Bridge
SHORT BRIDGE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123158
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Short Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SHORT BRIDGE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123158
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Short Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORT BRIDGE, BRIDGE STREET
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:
- SHORT BRIDGE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84958 22460
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL BRIDGE STREET
9/28 Short Bridge
GV II
Road bridge and railings over Back Ditch. Early C19. Red brick and cast iron. Aligned N-S over leat to Abbey Mill, which is aligned NE-SW. One semi-circular arch, with C20 brickwork above in E side. 2 iron ties through bridge with cast iron roundels at each end. Cast iron coping of stilted segmental section. Cast iron railings at each side, comprising a heavy stanchion of urn baluster form with urn finial at each end, and 8 intermediate stanchions of similar shape but lighter, without finials. 4 plain square bars between stanchions (5 in end sections). Rail of wave section, turning outwards at each end, with short square spikes. Oval plate embossed 'LC' (for Little Coggeshall) at base of SW stanchion. Height of railing above road, average 1.20 metres. Named Short Bridge in a map of 1731 (Essex Record Office D/DU 19/2). Formerly a toll bridge (J.S. Gardner (ed.), Coggeshall, Essex, 1951, 32).
Listing NGR: TL8495822460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardner, J S, Coggeshall Essex, (1951), 32
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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