Clays Farm Bridge
CLAYS FARM BRIDGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138652
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clays Farm Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CLAYS FARM BRIDGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138652
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clays Farm Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAYS FARM BRIDGE, MAIN ROAD
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:
- CLAYS FARM BRIDGE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alpraham and Calveley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59036 58792
Details
SJ 55 NE ALPRAHAM C.P. MAIN ROAD Calveley
4/8 Clays Farm Bridge.
II
Accommodation bridge for Clays Farm over the Chester to Nantwich length of the Shropshire Union Canal, circa. 1779 probably by J Clowes Engineer (or Thomas Telford during the 1797 restorations). Red brick with stone copings. Projecting carriage arch one brick deep. Steeply humped and of only one vehicle width but with wide curved parapets to both approaches. On the south side of the bridge there is a narrow tunnel running west to east through the abutments: this is semicircular arched with an inverted arch base and finishes just short of the east side of the bridge, where there are four ventilation holes. The tunnel is a store for timbers used for canal drainage and repair work. The west parapet coping is of rectangular section whereas the coping on the east parapet is semicircular; both have metal cramps and appear to be original.
Listing NGR: SJ5903658792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56729
- 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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