Platt Mill Bridge
PLATT MILL BRIDGE, B 4397
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177557
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Platt Mill Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- PLATT MILL BRIDGE, B 4397
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177557
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Platt Mill Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLATT MILL BRIDGE, B 4397
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:
- PLATT MILL BRIDGE, B 4397
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ruyton-XI-Towns
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Baschurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4034122259
Details
RUYTON-XI-TOWNS C.P.
SJ 42 SW
9/136
B 4397
Platt Mill Bridge
GV
II
Shown on O.S. map as Platt Bridge.
Bridge. 1791 by Edward Cureton. Regularly coursed and dressed red sandstone rubble. Twin segmental-headed arches with voussoirs and stepped cutwater. Flat string course slightly rising to centre. Circular corner piers. Long wing walls also terminating in circular corner piers. Small pierced flood arch to west side. Cureton was both designer and contractor for the construction of the bridge. Spans the River Perry.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1366529. That entry was removed from the List on 8 November 2016.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 November 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 256688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blackwall, A, Historic Bridges of Shropshire, (1985), 24
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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