BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330

BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330, NEW GROUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205878
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1978
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330, NEW GROUND

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Date:: 2001-07-02
Reference:: IOE01/04605/14
Rights:: © Mr Reg Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205878
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330, NEW GROUND

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE AT SY 6924 7330, NEW GROUND

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Portland
National Grid Reference:: SY 69240 73303

Details

PORTLAND

SY6873 NEW GROUND, Yeates 969-1/3/189 Bridge at SY 6924 7330 21/09/78 (Formerly Listed as: VERNE ROAD Four Bridges over former Merchant's Tramway SW of the Verne's S entrance)

GV II

Road bridge over former mineral tramway. Dated 1882. Heavy squared rock-faced stone. Segmental arch to rusticated quoins and keystone on plain internal abutments to high offset plinth. Heavy square-edged weathered parapet, and short stopped pilaster ends. Inner face of parapet, to road, in dressed stone. North face has short curved and raked abutments. Roadway c 3m wide, parapets c 10m long. One of three close-set bridges over the former tramway taking stone from the quarries on Tophill to the harbour, and of interest as a reminder of the C19 industrial activity of the quarries on the island, when rail and tramways were an important aspect of the transport system.

Listing NGR: SY6924073303

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Legacy System number:: 381993
Legacy System:: LBS

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