Aqueduct in Harptree Combe
AQUEDUCT IN HARPTREE COMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129583
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Aqueduct in Harptree Combe
- Statutory Address:
- AQUEDUCT IN HARPTREE COMBE
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- Date:
- 2004-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/10976/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129583
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Aqueduct in Harptree Combe
- Statutory Address 1:
- AQUEDUCT IN HARPTREE COMBE
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:
- AQUEDUCT IN HARPTREE COMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Harptree
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56183 56009
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
ST 55 NE EAST HARPTREE HARPTREE COMBE
5/110 Aqueduct in Harptree Combe II
Aqueduct for Bristol water supply. Completed 1851, John Simpson, Engineer. Wrought iron tube, limestone piers and abutments. A run of c 5Om of wrought iron pipe of ovoid section cl.4m deep and lm at its widest, carried across a narrow, steep-sided course on 5 piers in coursed rock-faced masonry, tapered square, to stone padstones carrying rocker bearings for the large pipe. Piers vary in height to accommodate ground profile and the central pier is cruciform, with raking buttresses. At the north end is a short length of lofty revetment wall to a stone coping, and at the south end a similar high wall, returned in a battered length formed in undressed rocks, but with three broad raking buttresses in dressed stone; this continues, at a lower level, as an undressed rock revetment battered wall, with stone coping, dying out to rising ground, continued for an overall length of c 25m, and enclosing a reservoir in puddled clay. The pipeline, still in use, is part of an 18km supply line (see also Winford CP), and probably the oldest surviving example of such engineering. It is complete in detail as built.
Listing NGR: ST5618356009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32850
- 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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