AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE

AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE, CHERRY GARDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278157
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE
Statutory Address:: AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE, CHERRY GARDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278157
Date first listed:: 15-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE
Statutory Address 1:: AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE, CHERRY GARDEN LANE

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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Statutory Address:: AVON AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRAMWAY, RETAINING WALLS AND JUNCTION WITH CALIFORNIA INCLINE, CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE OVER SISTON BROOK NEAR CHERRY GARDEN LANE, CHERRY GARDEN LANE

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oldland
National Grid Reference:: ST 66808 70908

Details

1. 5118 OLDLAND CHERRY GARDEN LANE (off) (Avon and Gloucestershire Tramway) Retaining walls and junction with 'California Incline', Causeway and bridge over Siston Brook ST 67 SE 4/207 near Cherry Garden Lane II 2. Opened 1832 California Junction 1869. Impressive pennant stone embankment about 200 yds long. The California Incline Railway meets this at an angle and is composed of a raised causeway about 20 ft high, buttressed on south side and crossing Siston Brook with a plain arch. The parapet of the causeway has a soldier course. Closed 1904. Important remains of this tramway from Rodway Hill to the Avon include wharfs near Londonderry Farm and Avonside (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6680870908

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Legacy System number:: 406539
Legacy System:: LBS

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