Clapper Bridge About 20 Metres North of Dartmeet Bridge
CLAPPER BRIDGE ABOUT 20 METRES NORTH OF DARTMEET BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260486
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Clapper Bridge About 20 Metres North of Dartmeet Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CLAPPER BRIDGE ABOUT 20 METRES NORTH OF DARTMEET BRIDGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260486
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Clapper Bridge About 20 Metres North of Dartmeet Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAPPER BRIDGE ABOUT 20 METRES NORTH OF DARTMEET BRIDGE
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:
- CLAPPER BRIDGE ABOUT 20 METRES NORTH OF DARTMEET BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmoor Forest
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6719373207
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR
SX 67 SE
5/151
Clapper bridge about 20 metres north of Dartmeet Bridge (formerly listed as remains of Clapper Bridge)
23.8.55
GV
II
Clapper bridge crossing East Dart river. C17 or earlier.
Granite. A bridge of five spans with abutments and piers made up of large, natural
boulders piled up unmortared, one on top of the other. Two of the spans are each
crossed by a single broad lintel or clapper-stone, about 1 metre wide, but the other
three spans now have no lintels at all. These were washed away in the great flood of 4
August 1826 (Exeter Flying Post, 10.8.1826).
The bridge makes an excellent group with Dartmeet bridge (q.v., 20 metres to the
south).
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1170696.
This entry was removed from the List on 7th March 2016.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8th March 2016.
Listing NGR: SX6719373207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Exeter Flying Post in 10 August, (1826)
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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