LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT

LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1215192
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT
Statutory Address:: LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1215192
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT
Statutory Address 1:: LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT, WARMINSTER ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LIMPLEY STOKE VIADUCT, WARMINSTER ROAD

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Monkton Combe
District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Limpley Stoke
National Grid Reference:: ST7806562022

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/2019

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MONKTON COMBE, LIMPLEY STOKE WARMINSTER ROAD Limpley Stoke Viaduct

II Viaduct carrying Bath to Warminster Road. 1834 by G. P. Manners of Bath, builder D. Aust. Coursed, squared limestone rubble and ashlar. Eleven tall round-headed arches on square piers with imposts and keystones impart a classical appearance to this relatively small scale viaduct. Continuous plain cornice, plat band to road level; tall, plain coped parapet and pilaster strips to the ends. Built for part of the road improvements during the realignment of the turnpike from Bath to Southampton via Warminster. Reinforced with concrete 1920.

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1021818) was removed from the List on 17 January 2019. The remaining record (List entry number 1215192) falls within the parishes of both Monkton Combe and Limpley Stoke.

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Legacy System number:: 400200
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.