Hurstbow Bridge and the Wing Walls
HURSTBOW BRIDGE AND THE WING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226817
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hurstbow Bridge and the Wing Walls
- Statutory Address:
- HURSTBOW BRIDGE AND THE WING WALLS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226817
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hurstbow Bridge and the Wing Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- HURSTBOW BRIDGE AND THE WING WALLS
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:
- HURSTBOW BRIDGE AND THE WING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45817 18940
Details
Hurstbow Bridge etc, Hurst 15/270 10/270
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Hurstbow Bridge etc, Hurst 15/270 10/270
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15/270 Hurstbow Bridge and the wing walls
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GV II
Road bridge over Hurst Brook. Rebuilt 1848 to designs of Richard Carver by George Pearse, local mason, using cast iron members by Murch of Bridgwater. Ham stone and cast iron. Segmental arched cast iron ribs over single span, decorated and with "March 1848" cast on outer faces; plain cast handrails above; ashlar wing walls, on the curve, to all 4 corners, with pyramidal caps to the piers abutting the bridge and circular curls at outer ends, the north east wing longer than the remainder. Total cost of bridge and walls two hundred pounds. (D. J. Greenfield: The County Bridge Papers: Article pp 27-30, Somerset Industrial Archaeological Journal No. 2, I977).
Listing NGR: ST4581718940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Somerset Industrial Journal in Somerset Industrial Journal, Vol. 2, (1977)
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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