Somerset Bridge
Somerset Bridge, Shackleford Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188935
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- Somerset Bridge, Shackleford Road
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10696/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188935
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Somerset Bridge, Shackleford 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:
- Somerset Bridge, Shackleford Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Peper Harow
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 92177 43926
Details
SU 94SW
9/3/60
PEPER HAROW C.P.
SHACKLEFORD ROAD
Somerset Bridge
II*
Bridge. C13 with C18 and C20 extensions and alterations. Probably built by the Monks of Waverley Abbey.
Local sandstone rubble to centre arch with slabs forming voussoirs; sandstone ashlar to outer arches, with brick parapets. circa 3½ feet high above. The right hand abutment has been widened and pierced with a brick-lined arch and shallow concrete channel. The upstream cutwaters are "Keeled" ie. pointed at both ends with chamfered tops, keeled with pyramidal tops to downstream side. One of a series of bridges built between Farnham and Guildford by the Monks with important historical associations. Scheduled Ancient Monument: Surrey Antiquity No. 30.
Listing NGR: SU9217743926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 291591
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Renn, D F, The River Wey Bridge between Farnham and Guildford in Research Volume of the Surrey Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, (1974), 75-83
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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