Ickford Bridge Together With Whirlpool Arch Bridge
ICKFORD BRIDGE TOGETHER WITH WHIRLPOOL ARCH BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159729
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ickford Bridge Together With Whirlpool Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- ICKFORD BRIDGE TOGETHER WITH WHIRLPOOL ARCH BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159729
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ickford Bridge Together With Whirlpool Arch Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ICKFORD BRIDGE TOGETHER WITH WHIRLPOOL ARCH BRIDGE, BRIDGE 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:
- ICKFORD BRIDGE TOGETHER WITH WHIRLPOOL ARCH BRIDGE, BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ickford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP6487706476
Details
SP 60 NW
4/297
25.10.51
ICKFORD
BRIDGE ROAD
Ickford Bridge together with
Whirlpool Arch Bridge
II
River bridge, partly in Buckinghamshire but south part in South
Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire. Medieval, altered and dated 1685.
C18 and C19 alterations. Whirlpool Arch c1800. Coursed rubble with
ashlar arches and dressings. 3 arches with causewayed southern approach.
North arch depressed, central arch 4-centred. Wide cut water with
parapet refuges between northern 2 arches, buttress on plinth with
weathered coping between central and south arch. Chamfered parapet
copings. In eastern refuge on south side is stone inscribed 'Here Begineth
the County of Bucks 1685' and '1685 Here ends the County of Oxon'. At
north end of causeway on Buckinghamshire side is Whirlpool Arch bridge, a
segmental arch in ashlar with rubblestone parapets and chamfered
ashlar copings.
RCHM I. 217, MON.8. ANCIENT MONUMENT.
Listing NGR: SP6487706476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 43238
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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