Brompton Bridge
BROMPTON BRIDGE, B6271
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131590
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BROMPTON BRIDGE, B6271
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131590
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Brompton Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROMPTON BRIDGE, B6271
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:
- BROMPTON BRIDGE, B6271
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton-on-Swale
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 21165 99894
Details
BROMPTON-ON-SWALE B 6271 SE 2099-2199 11/4 Brompton Bridge
- II
Bridge. Possibly in part of 1691, with mid - late C18 and early C19 rebuilding and widening. Ashlar and rubble. Single segmental arch. Downstream side, older section: rubble with ashlar voussoirs and slab hood- mould; cobble parapet with segmental ashlar coping. Widened upstream: ashlar sandstone with rock-faced rusticated voussoirs; band; ashlar parapet with segmental coping. An older bridge, in existence in the C12, was rebuilt in 1691, and possibly again, and widened later. The road from Brompton to Richmond was turnpiked 1750-1. Brompton-on-Swale Workers' Education Association, Guided Walk Round Old Brompton-on-Swale (1983), item 41; Clarkson, History of Richmond, (1821), p 389ff; Jervoise, Ancient Bridges of the North of England (1931), p 87; VCH i, p 51.
Listing NGR: SE2116599894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 87
Guided Walk Round Old Brompton on Swale, (1983)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 51
Clarkson, , History of Richmond, (1821), 389
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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