Hele Bridge at NGR 9331 2782
HELE BRIDGE AT NGR 9331 2782
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263928
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hele Bridge at NGR 9331 2782
- Statutory Address:
- HELE BRIDGE AT NGR 9331 2782
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263928
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hele Bridge at NGR 9331 2782
- Statutory Address 1:
- HELE BRIDGE AT NGR 9331 2782
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:
- HELE BRIDGE AT NGR 9331 2782
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dulverton
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9330627831
Details
SS92NW DULVERTON CP -
9/53 Hele Bridge at NGR SS 9331 2782
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GV II
Road bridge over River Exe. Medieval in origin, repaired 1628 and 1866, widened on south side in 1892 by G B Fisher for Somerset County Council. Random rubble local stone with rubble voussoirs and hit-and-miss coping to parapet, south side
squared, irregularly coursed local stone with blue glazed brick voussoirs and saddleback coping. Three arch span; 4-centred arches on north side flanking pointed cutwaters with rubble tops, circular iron tie above apex of centre
arch; the earlier parapet seems to have extended to the top of the cutwaters and is visible in the south-west corner. South side, semi-circular headed arches, pointed cutwater between with parapet extended along the line of the cutwaters
to form recesses similar to those found on medieval packhorse bridges. The soffits of the arches have been extended in brick on the south side and would appear to indicate 2 periods of building. An interesting example of how a medieval bridge has been adapted to modern needs. Ogilby in 1675 includes the road from Hele Bridge to Dulverton in his Bridgwater-Barnstaple road. (Bently and Murless, Somerset Roads, 1985; Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9330627831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429171
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
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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