Wreaks Causeway End Bridge

WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138084
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Wreaks Causeway End Bridge
Statutory Address:
WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595
Wreaks Causeway End Bridge viewed from the north
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Date:
2002-04-07
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138084
Date first listed:
05-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Wreaks Causeway End Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595
Statutory Address 2:
WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595
Statutory Address:
WREAKS CAUSEWAY END BRIDGE, A595

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Broughton West
National Grid Reference:
SD2317586196

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 March 2017.

SD 28 NW
9/39

BROUGHTON WEST
A595

Wreaks Causeway End Bridge

(Formerly Listed as: Wreaks Causeway End Bridge (that part in Broughton West C.P.)

II

Bridge. Plan dated 1777. Coursed stone rubble. 3 low segmental arches with
cutwaters to north side. Low flat parapets, probably renewed but retaining
flat coping stones inscribed in 1870s by local mason who also worked on barn
opposite Ship Inn, Kirkby Ireleth C.P. (q.v.) and other buildings in Kirkby
Ireleth. Inscriptions: "ENGLAND FOR EVER", "BE KIND TO THE POOR"; "GP/1878"
etc.

Listing NGR: SD 23175 86196

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
75810
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.

Ordnance survey map of Wreaks Causeway End Bridge

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