Pierce Bridge
PIERCE BRIDGE, B6275
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131363
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pierce Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- PIERCE BRIDGE, B6275
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131363
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pierce Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIERCE BRIDGE, B6275
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:
- PIERCE BRIDGE, B6275
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Piercebridge
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21082 15554
Details
CLIFFE B 6275 NZ 21 NW 2/15 Pierce Bridge (formerly listed as Pierce Bridge (that half 19.12.51 in Croft R D)) GV II*
Bridge over River Tees. Early C16, repaired 1673, widened 1789. Ashlar and coursed rubble sandstone. 3 arches. Upstream side: coursed rubble; outer 2 arches of early C16 date, of 3 pointed orders, the northernmost arch with asymmetrical additional arch extending the abutment to improve the road gradient; central arch of 1673, of 3 semicircular orders; triangular cutwaters; C18 parapet rising from band with segmental coping, terminating in circular bollards. Downstream side: of 1789; ashlar; segmental arches with archivolts; triangular cutwaters between arches, pilaster buttress to north of northernmost arch; parapet rising from band, with segmental coping, terminating in circular bollards, the south parapet continuing round almost to the George Hotel (qv). Pedestrian retreats above cutwaters are of canted internal plan; the central ones on both sides have recessed panels with illegible inscriptions, and similar panel in southernmost downstream retreat; in centre of downstream parapet, 2 recessed panels marking boundary between County Durham and Yorkshire, the northern one with inscription "Co.D." just legible. Partly in the Civil Parish of Piercebridge. E Jervoise, Ancient Bridges of the North of England, (1931), p 53.
Listing NGR: NZ2108215554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 53
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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