Bridge Over Sipton Burn on the Long Drag

BRIDGE OVER SIPTON BURN ON THE LONG DRAG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155693
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Bridge Over Sipton Burn on the Long Drag
Statutory Address:
BRIDGE OVER SIPTON BURN ON THE LONG DRAG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155693
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Bridge Over Sipton Burn on the Long Drag
Statutory Address 1:
BRIDGE OVER SIPTON BURN ON THE LONG DRAG

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRIDGE OVER SIPTON BURN ON THE LONG DRAG

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Allendale
National Grid Reference:
NY 85676 50377

Details

NY 85 SE LANDS COMMON TO THE SIPTON PARISHES OF ALLENDALE AND WEST ALLEN 16/165 Bridge over Sipton Burn on the Long Drag

II

Bridge, dated 1878 with initials W.B.B. on slab on external face of west parapet. Squared stone with cut dressings. Lofty bridge spanning a ravine, side walls with marked batter. Round-headed arch slightly recessed from wall face. Flanking pilasters. Band below parapet, arched parapet coping with blocks linked by iron clamps. The bridge is associated with the Long Drag, a well graded mine road used for carrying lead from the Allendale mines over Allendale Common to Whitley Chapel and Hexham.

Listing NGR: NY8567650377

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
240285
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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