Sparrows Bridge

SPARROWS BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276401
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1993
List Entry Name:
Sparrows Bridge
Statutory Address:
SPARROWS BRIDGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276401
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1993
List Entry Name:
Sparrows Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
SPARROWS BRIDGE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
SPARROWS BRIDGE

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Gosfield
National Grid Reference:
TL 78883 29235

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TL 72 NE GOSFIELD -

7/10000 Sparrows Bridge

II

Accommodation bridge. Circa 1865. Wrought and cast iron, timber deck, rendered brick abutments. Single span, bar-stayed cantilever design. Four cast iron towers with spike finials. Decorative cast iron balustrades. At time of survey most balustrade panels missing, deck concreted. This type of bridge is rare and few of this date survive. The bridge carried the driveway through the park to Gosfield Place, built circa 1865 on the site of an earlier mansion for B Sparrow Esq. The house was demolished circa 1925.

Listing NGR: TL7888329235

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
409475
Legacy System:
LBS

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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