Glen Howe Packhorse Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres Upstream of Cottage
GLEN HOWE PACKHORSE BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES UPSTREAM OF COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281510
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Glen Howe Packhorse Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres Upstream of Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GLEN HOWE PACKHORSE BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES UPSTREAM OF COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281510
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Glen Howe Packhorse Bridge, Approximately 100 Metres Upstream of Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEN HOWE PACKHORSE BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES UPSTREAM OF COTTAGE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GLEN HOWE PACKHORSE BRIDGE, APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES UPSTREAM OF COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 29220 94331
Details
The following buillding shall be added:
SK 29 SE BRADFIELD GLEN HOWE PARK SK 2937 9430 Wharncliffe Side
9/119 Glen Howe Packhorse Bridge, approx 100 m upstream of Cottage
II
Packhorse bridge. 1734 (Hey, p.44), resited in present location later C19. Cursed packed stone. Single elliptical arch across broad span. Band below parapet, both rising to peak centre. Parapets terminate at each end in a shaped stone, and on north side the wing walls bend at an obtuse angle. Causeway paved with worn setts. The bridge, formerly New Mill Bridge over Ewden Beck, was re-erected in Glen Howe Park when Ewden Reservoir was created; it dates from 1734 when Benjamin Milnes signed a contract with the inhabitants of Bolsterstone to replace a timber bridge (Hey, p144) D Hey, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, Yorkshire 1981
Listing NGR: SK2922094331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382374
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hey, D, Buildings of Britain 1550-1750 in Yorkshire Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, (1981)
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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