Clopton Bridge and Attached Former Toll House
CLOPTON BRIDGE AND ATTACHED FORMER TOLL HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1204167
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Clopton Bridge and Attached Former Toll House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOPTON BRIDGE AND ATTACHED FORMER TOLL HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1204167
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clopton Bridge and Attached Former Toll House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOPTON BRIDGE AND ATTACHED FORMER TOLL HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
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:
- CLOPTON BRIDGE AND ATTACHED FORMER TOLL HOUSE, BRIDGE FOOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20586 54852
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 BRIDGE FOOT 604-1/6/6 Clopton Bridge and attached former 25/10/51 toll house (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGETOWN Clopton Bridge)
GV I
Bridge. c1484 with C16 and C17 repairs; widened and toll house built 1814; footway added 1827; later parapets. For Sir Hugh Clopton; footway by J Nicolls, made by the Eagle Foundry, Birmingham. Coursed squared stone and ashlar with cast-iron. 14 segmental pointed arches with platt band and plain parapets over; widened to north side, which has cutwaters. Cast-iron footway to north side is cantilevered on lattice work brackets with enriched spandrels; scrolled supports to posts, which support panels of rails with semicircular links to head and foot. 10-sided toll house to south of west end has platt band and crenellated parapet. Entrance, in porch to return, has 4-centred head and door of 4 arched panels, porch is weather-boarded to return and rear. Windows have sills and 4-centred heads, most are blind, some have small-paned casements of 2 pointed lights. Bell-form rainwater head. The bridge was originally attached to a causeway to the west. An important survival of a medieval bridge forming a significant landscape feature. A Scheduled Ancient Monument. (VCH: Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 9; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).
Listing NGR: SP2058654852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366151
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 9
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 416
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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