BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200336
Date first listed:: 15-May-1989
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200336
Date first listed:: 15-May-1989
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE AT SOUTH WEST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sarsden
National Grid Reference:: SP 28974 22600

Details

SARSOEN SP22SE 7/192 Bridge at SW end of lake approx. 300m S of Sarsden House

II

Bridge. Circa 1796 by Humphry Repton for John Langston. Limestone ashlar with boulder facing to north side and above arch on south side. Single segmental arch. Humphry Repton, who created the lake on which the bridge stands, presented a Red Book for improvements to Sarsden (including the formation of the lake) to John Langston in March 1796. (Nigel Temple, Sarsden, Oxfordshire: Journal of Garden History: Vol.6, No.2 (1986), pp.89-111) [2642]

Listing NGR: SP2897422600

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 254087
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Garden History' in Garden History, (1986)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.