Plym Bridge
PLYM BRIDGE, PLYMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162902
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Plym Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- PLYM BRIDGE, PLYMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162902
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Plym Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLYM BRIDGE, PLYMBRIDGE 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:
- PLYM BRIDGE, PLYMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sparkwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5237758709
Details
SPARKWELL
SX 55 NW
9/125
PLYMBRIDGE ROAD
Plym Bridge
23-4-52
II*
Narrow road bridge over River Plym partly in City of Plymouth. Circa C18 on earlier piers. Killas rubble. Five semi-circular arches with slightly recessed arch rings. Cutwaters to piers on both upstream and downstream sides. Parapets with chamfered granite coping stones, splayed ut at either end over the abutments. "A bridge existed here as early as 1238, on the important main road from Tavistock to Plympton". Springing of the earlier arches can be seen just above water level.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1386329. That entry was removed from the List on 23 September 2016.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Henderson, C, Jervoise, E, Old Devon Bridges, (1938), 5 19 20
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 686
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972), 463
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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