Polyphant Bridge
POLYPHANT BRIDGE, HICKSMILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155097
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Polyphant Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- POLYPHANT BRIDGE, HICKSMILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155097
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Polyphant Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLYPHANT BRIDGE, HICKSMILL
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:
- POLYPHANT BRIDGE, HICKSMILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewannick
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trewen
- National Grid Reference:
- SX2664382309
Details
SOUTH PETHERWIN
SX28SE
1/8
Hicksmill
Polyphant bridge
II
Road Bridge over River Inny. Probably C17 west span rebuilt in 1847. Slate rubble with dressed slate arch rings and with granite coping. Two span bridge with carriageway about 3.7 metres wide. The original C17 has round arch with recessed dressed slate rubble arch ring with small granite keystone and chamfered imposts. The 1847 rebuilt west arch has dressed slate round arch ring. Central pier has triangular cutwater on both sides. Parapet with rounded granite coping, reduced in height over the long causeway abutments and replaced by granite posts and steel tube rails.
History: The west arch was rebuilt after a flood on 8th July 1847, when all the other bridges on the River Inny were destroyed, except for Trekelland Bridge, South Petherwin (qv). Polyphant Bridge carried the main road from Launceston to Bodmin until a detour was made via 'Two Bridges' in the early C19. The River Inny is a tributary of the Tamar.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Coates, H, Old Cornish Bridges and Streams, (1928), 56
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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