BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727

BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281839
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281839
Date first listed:: 17-May-1993
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET

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 IN TOUTS QUARRY AT NGR SY 685 727, WIDE STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Portland
National Grid Reference:: SY 68509 72730

Details

PORTLAND

SY67SE WIDE STREET, Yeates 969-1/1/191 (West side (off)) Bridge in Touts Quarry at NGR SY 685 727

II

Foot bridge over track or quarry rail bed. Dated 1854. Dry-laid thin-bedded Portland stone with ashlar dressings. Set between natural rock revetments where track cut through, arch c 2.5m wide and 3.5m to crown, to tunnel vault c4m long, in good dressed quoins and voussoirs, including cranked single stone voussoir at haunches; above crown a plain stone with inscription 'J.C.LANO 1854'. Bridge rises to c 5.5m, without parapets, and with overgrown earth walkway. On the NW side, which is overgrown with ivy (June 1991), there is an adit on the N side, blocked with loose masonry at c 3m depth. A flight of 27 concrete steps descends by the S abutment. The name Lano occurs amongst the inscriptions in the churchyard to St. George Reforne; this is a well-built structure with some design pretension in an abandoned quarry area.

Listing NGR: SY6850972730

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Legacy System number:: 382082
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.