Bridge Over Mill Beck and Attached Gateway at Abbey Vale
BRIDGE OVER MILL BECK AND ATTACHED GATEWAY AT ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197905
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Mill Beck and Attached Gateway at Abbey Vale
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE OVER MILL BECK AND ATTACHED GATEWAY AT ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197905
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Mill Beck and Attached Gateway at Abbey Vale
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE OVER MILL BECK AND ATTACHED GATEWAY AT ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
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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:
- BRIDGE OVER MILL BECK AND ATTACHED GATEWAY AT ABBEY VALE, ABBEY APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 21854 71975
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2015
SD27SW
708-1/4/2
BARROW IN FURNESS,
ABBEY APPROACH (East side (off)),
Bridge over Mill Beck and attached gateway at Abbey Vale
(Formerly listed as Bridge over Mill Beck and attached gateway at Abbey Dale)
GV II
Bridge and attached gateway. c1873 gateway; the bridge probably earlier C19. Red sandstone rubble; wrought-iron gates. The bridge has a single-span round arch of dressed voussoirs; parapet walls splay and terminate in simple end piers except at link with the embankment wall to Abbey Vale (qv); chamfered ashlar copings. Gateway: double gates set across the bridge carriageway have spiked dog bars with cross bracing and curved top rails with barbed finials. Iron posts with matching finials; radial side panels overhang bridge parapet. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SD2185471975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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