Widbrook Bridge, Trowbridge Road

WIDBROOK BRIDGE, TROWBRIDGE ROAD, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261986
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:
Widbrook Bridge, Trowbridge Road
Statutory Address:
WIDBROOK BRIDGE, TROWBRIDGE ROAD, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261986
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:
Widbrook Bridge, Trowbridge Road
Statutory Address 1:
WIDBROOK BRIDGE, TROWBRIDGE ROAD, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WIDBROOK BRIDGE, TROWBRIDGE ROAD, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:
ST8340159696

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/04/2014


ST 85 NW
5/302

BRADFORD-ON-AVON,
KENNET & AVON CANAL
Widbrook Bridge, Trowbridge Road

(Formerly listed as Widbrook Bridge, Trowbridge Road at ST 835597)

II

Road bridge. Early C19, C20 alterations. Stone and brick. Single elliptical arch
with keystone, band, solid parapet and piers, with stone coping. Some brickwork inside
arch. Towpath retaining wall with concrete coping and iron hand rails. The Kennet
and Avon Canal was constructed between 1794-1810. John Rennie was principal engineer.

Listing NGR: ST8340159696

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
312804
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.

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