The Swing Bridge Including Adjoining Walls and Engine House
THE SWING BRIDGE INCLUDING ADJOINING WALLS AND ENGINE HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143675
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Swing Bridge Including Adjoining Walls and Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWING BRIDGE INCLUDING ADJOINING WALLS AND ENGINE HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143675
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Swing Bridge Including Adjoining Walls and Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWING BRIDGE INCLUDING ADJOINING WALLS AND ENGINE HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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:
- THE SWING BRIDGE INCLUDING ADJOINING WALLS AND ENGINE HOUSE, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hayle
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 55811 37634
Details
SW 5437-5537 HAYLE CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, Hayle (also part of East Quay) 10/79 The Swing Bridge including adjoining walls and engine house
GV II Swing bridge for former railway and road to cross canal, including associated masonry walls and engine house. 1880. Dressed granite and granite rubble walls. Iron bridge construction. Brick engine house with felted roof. Plan: Cantilevered beam pivoted on an hydraulically operated lift and turn pivot (no longer operational) on the south side of the canal. At the left-hand side (west) of the bridge are battered walls with corbelled parapet of former drawbridge of 1852. Beside the bridge (left) is a C20 sluice gate replacing earlier lock and sluice gates. Built over the canal bank (front left) is a small rectangular engine house for former engine which lifted and turned the swing bridge. Granite ashlar walls to left-hand (west) abutments, otherwise rubble with granite copings. Bridge has tapered iron beams at the sides. Engine house has round arched openings and stands over a segmental arch spanning a leat. Source: Hayle Town Trail, by Brian Sullivan.
Listing NGR: SW5581137634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sullivan, B, Hayle Town Trail, ()
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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