East Lodge of Lendal Bridge Lendal Bridge and Attached Tollhouses
EAST LODGE OF LENDAL BRIDGE, MUSEUM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257475
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1968
- List Entry Name:
- East Lodge of Lendal Bridge Lendal Bridge and Attached Tollhouses
- Statutory Address:
- EAST LODGE OF LENDAL BRIDGE, MUSEUM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257475
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- East Lodge of Lendal Bridge Lendal Bridge and Attached Tollhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST LODGE OF LENDAL BRIDGE, MUSEUM STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LENDAL BRIDGE AND ATTACHED TOLLHOUSES, LENDAL
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:
- EAST LODGE OF LENDAL BRIDGE, MUSEUM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LENDAL BRIDGE AND ATTACHED TOLLHOUSES, LENDAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 59984 51924
Details
YORK
SE5951NE LENDAL
1112-1/15/9 Lendal Bridge and attached
01/07/68 tollhouses
(Formerly Listed as:
Lendal Bridge)
GV II
Includes: East Lodge of Lendal Bridge MUSEUM STREET.
Bridge, abutments and approach ramps; flight of steps attached
to east abutment on upstream side; tollhouse attached to each
end of bridge on downstream side; balustraded garden railings
attached to west bank tollhouse. 1861-63; strengthened 1910.
By Thomas Page; stonework by George Milburn.
MATERIALS: cast-iron bridge; abutment and approach ramp
parapets of ashlar; stone steps on cast-iron frame. Tollhouses
rusticated sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh
and stone slate roofs with conjoined stone stacks; cast-iron
railings.
EXTERIOR: single-span bridge between abutments pierced on each
bank by carriage arches. Arch is elliptical with traceried
spandrels and parapet pierced by quatrefoils incorporating
armorial shields over band of heraldic badges. In centre of
parapet a branched gas lamp standard of clustered octagonal
columns with ogee caps supporting tapered lanterns with
pennant finials and angel terminal. On west bank, chamfered
elliptical carriage arch pierces abutment; on east bank,
carriage arch is closed by board doors. Parapet to abutments
and approaches has sloped roll-moulded coping, embattled above
west bank arch, and octagonal piers with coved moulded
cornices and shallow stepped octagonal caps. Flight of steps
on east bank has framework of twisted columns on tall
chamfered square section pedestals, arcaded balustrade of
cusped pointed arches on octagonal colonnettes tied by band of
pierced quatrefoils, and moulded handrail.
Tollhouses: 1 storey, 2 bays at bridge level, with 3-stage
octagonal tower rising at rear from river bank level. East
tollhouse is gabled, the west one embattled; towers are
machicolated and embattled with conjoined stacks. Bridge front
of each tollhouse has an ogee-arched doorway beneath hoodmould
on shield stops, and square-headed mullioned window of two
trefoil-headed lights recessed in quoined surround. On river
side, each has 4-light oriel window with half-hexagonal roof.
Windows are diamond lattice glazed, and mullions and openings
are hollow-chamfered. West bank tollhouse has arcaded
balustrade railings, similar to those on east bank steps, to
small side garden.
INTERIOR: tollhouses not inspected.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Hutchinson J and Palliser DM: York:
Edinburgh: 1980-: 160).
Listing NGR: SE5998451924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hutchinson, J, Palliser, D M, Bartholomew City Guides in York, (1980), 160
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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