BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK

BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268855
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268855
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK, 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 OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3138 1403, GOLDINGS PARK, 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:: TL3138314021

Details

HERTFORD

TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/302 Bridge over River Beane at NGR TL 3138 1403, Goldings Park

II

Bridge. 1869. One of a series built by Robert Smith, owner of Goldings. Red and yellow brick, flint and stone dressings. Elliptical arch with 3 headers of reds, alternating with stone voussoirs, stone impost bands and stone keyblock with incised circle with outer arch of yellow headers. Flint panels in spandrels, battered piers to abutments which have flint panels and red brick quoins, stone band; cornice of chamfered cream header bricks set alternatively upright and inverted. Red brick corbel band and stone upper band, red brick blocking course to parapet which has panelled red brick piers with moulded stone caps with low pyramidal tops. Stack bonded brick balusters and stone copings. 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: TL3138314021

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 461402
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.