SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288311
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
- Statutory Address:
- SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288311
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
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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.
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:
- SUSPENSION FOOTBRIDGE AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO5649328019
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sellack
- National Grid Reference:
- SO5649328019
Details
This asset was previously listed twice also at List Entry 1491200. That entry was removed from the List on 27 August 2024.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 August 2024 to reformat to current standards and removed reference to duplicate list entry. The GIS triangle depiction was moved slightly from SO5649328011 to SO5649328019. Thus placing it on the parish boundary between Sellack and Kings Caple which passes through the building. The grid reference was removed from the Details text.
SELLACK CP
SO 52 NE
4/148
Suspension footbridge at National Grid Reference SO5649328019
II
26.03.1987
Suspension footbridge over River Wye. Probably circa 1875 with later alterations. Plaque with raised lettering: LOUIS HARPER A.M.I.C.E. / MAKER / ABERDEEN. Rock-faced sandstone ashlar, concrete, breeze blocks, brick, cast-iron, steel cables and wood. Stone piers on each river bank carry a pair of braced cyclindrical tapered columns with spiked ball-finials; from the columns are suspended steel cables from which is hung a wooden board-walk; outward from the columns the main cables are secured under ramped stone, concrete, breeze block and brick approaches with cast-iron railings and gates, some of the main posts of which have ball finials. Maker's plaque is on the south side of the horizontal brace between the southern pair of main columns.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400081
- 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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