BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373

BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373, NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268852
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373, NORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268852
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373, NORTH ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH ROAD OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3148 1373, NORTH ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 31480 13730

Details

HERTFORD

TL3113NW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/298 Bridge carrying North Road over River Beane at NGR TL 3148 1373

II

Bridge. 1869. One of a series built by Robert Smith, owner of Goldings. Red and yellow brick abutments, cast-iron girders and cast-iron balustrade. Riveted plate girders with moulded cast-iron cover plate above, pierced balustrade panels with pattern of 3 circles, with 3 triangles above and below, moulded top rail, barleysugar twist columns with pyramidal caps. Yellow brick abutments with stone bands and red recessed panels, piers with roll moulded stone caps with low pyramidal tops, curved brick parapet walls with stone copings on approaches. HISTORICAL NOTE: Robert Smith inherited the Goldings estate in 1861 and demolished the old mansion, diverting and reconstructing the nearby Watton Turnpike, and building a series of bridges in 1869 to carry the road, and the drive to Goldings over the 'Goldings Canal' and mill race of the River Beane. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a curious Hertfordshire Mansion: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 34-5, 38; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257; Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London: 1979-: 84-5, 438).

Listing NGR: TL3148013730

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 461399
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 50-52 257
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971), 84-85 438
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 34-35 38

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.