High Bridge
HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190422
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- High Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190422
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1953
- List Entry Name:
- High Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE 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:
- HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Armitage with Handsacre
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mavesyn Ridware
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0921916753
Details
SK 01 NE; 6/13
ARMITAGE WITH HANDSACRE C.P.,
RIDWARE ROAD,
High Bridge (that part in Armitage with Handsacre C.P.)
II*
Road bridge. 1830. Cast-iron bridge made by the Coalbrookdale Works,
with rusticated ashlar abutments. Single segmental arch over the
River Trent with cross patterned spandrels and a span of 140 feet.
The abutments have a dentilled cornice and sweep forward to terminate
in semi-octagonal piers with massive caps. On each side of the bridge,
behind the abutments, is a flight of steps. The original iron parapet
has been removed. The other part of High Bridge is Listed under Mavesyn
Ridware C.P. B.o.E. p. 204.
Listing NGR: SK0921916753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272859
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 204
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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