CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE

CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE, LINDALE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269679
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE, LINDALE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269679
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE, LINDALE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CASTLE HEAD BRIDGE, LINDALE ROAD

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Grange-Over-Sands
National Grid Reference:: SD 42203 79678

Details

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS

SD47NW LINDALE ROAD 705-1/2/20 (East side (off)) Castle Head Bridge

II

Bridge with sluice gates. c1800. Limestone ashlar and rubble, with iron railings on north parapet. Has 2 segmental arches , with cutwaters projecting to north and south which have slots for sluice gates. The southern cutwaters are much taller than those to the north. The solid parapets have bands below their copings. HISTORY: John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the ironmaster, who owned the Castle Head estate, carried out a scheme of land drainage and improvement from 1778 onwards. He was also associated with the earliest (unexecuted) large-scale plan to enclose Morecambe Bay. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Marshall JD: Furness and the Industrial Revolution: Barrow-in-Furness: 1958-: 64).

Listing NGR: SD4220379678

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Legacy System number:: 460528
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Marshall, J D , Furness and the Industrial Revolution, (1958), 64

Legal

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