37 Cast Iron Fence Posts Between Bridgeland Street and Bideford Bridge
37 CAST IRON FENCE POSTS BETWEEN BRIDGELAND STREET AND BIDEFORD BRIDGE, THE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282939
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 37 Cast Iron Fence Posts Between Bridgeland Street and Bideford Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- 37 CAST IRON FENCE POSTS BETWEEN BRIDGELAND STREET AND BIDEFORD BRIDGE, THE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282939
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 37 Cast Iron Fence Posts Between Bridgeland Street and Bideford Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 CAST IRON FENCE POSTS BETWEEN BRIDGELAND STREET AND BIDEFORD BRIDGE, THE QUAY
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:
- 37 CAST IRON FENCE POSTS BETWEEN BRIDGELAND STREET AND BIDEFORD BRIDGE, THE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45491 26661
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 THE QUAY 842-1/5/232 (East side) 37 cast-iron fence posts between Bridgeland St and Bideford Bridge
GV II
37 cast-iron fence-posts. Most dated 1847, one 1892. the remainder undated. Identical in design with tapered octagonal shafts and moulded caps, the sides panelled; at the top, holes to carry tubular iron bars (now removed), at the bottom, in most cases, mountings for rings (nearly all broken off), presumably intended to carry chains. The 3 posts adjoining the bridge have holes top and bottom, the section immediately next to the bridge now having C20 replacement-bars. Most carry an inscription moulded on one, or occasionally two panels: IRON FOUNDERS BIDEFORD 1847. Some lack the date or any inscription at all; the ninth post from the north has the date 1892. The surface-level of the quay has clearly risen considerably; probably the founder's name is on the buried sections of the posts. There is a gap in the centre of the series, corresponding roughly to the present working quay. The tubular bars seem to have been added after the widening of the quay in 1899; they were in position by 1905. Photographs of the early 1880s show chains hanging from the tops of the posts.
Listing NGR: SS4549126661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375933
- 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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