BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1130648
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1130648
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER MOAT AND ARCHWAY TO LOWER HUXLEY HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hargrave and Huxley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49765 62253

Details

SJ 46 SE HUXLEY C.P. LOWER HUXLEY

2/13 Bridge over moat and archway to Lower Huxley Hall 1/3/1967

GV II*

Bridge, archway and stubs of former curtain wall: bridge late medieval, with parapet and remaining work of early-mid C17. Ashlar buff and pink sandstone with some English garden wall bond orange brick in curtain wall. Bridge has a pair of low segmental arches divided by triangular cutwaters. Plain parapet with chamfered coping follows line of the cutwaters. Flagged carriageway. Astride the hall side of the bridge is a fine moulded semi-circular archway with raised springers, a rosette on the keystone, and a projecting band above. Strapwork entablature carries open scrolled pediment flanked by finials. Triangular ramps run down onto the parapets. To rear are the stubs of a brick curtain wall with stone quoins and copings.

Listing NGR: SJ4976562253

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 55523
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.