Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296523
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Mowthorp Bridge
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296523
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Sept-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Mowthorp Bridge
- Location Description:
- Mowthorp Bridge at SE 98009 88235
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Suffield-cum-Everley
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE9800888237
Summary
Double span masonry road bridge of circa 1804 crossing the Sea Cut (a flood relief drain of the same date).
Reasons for Designation
Mowthorp Bridge is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Date: despite early C20 concrete alterations, the bridge retains its character as an early C19 masonry road bridge;
* Historic Interest: for its interest as part of a significant early C19 flood relief scheme.
History
In 1804 the Muston and Yedingham Drainage Board constructed the New Cut (now known as the Sea Cut): an artificial drainage channel taking water from the River Derwent, just over 700m west of Mowthorp Bridge, to flow eastwards out to the North Sea at Scalby. The Sea Cut was designed to help control periodic flooding of the lower reaches of the River Derwent. Mowthorp Bridge is thought to have been constructed as part of this early C19 engineering scheme. At some point before 1928, in order to improve the road line, the arches of the bridge were augmented in concrete with the parapets repositioned accordingly.
Details
MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar. Later alterations in concrete.
FORM: the bridge is of two slightly unequal spans, the arches being segmental with single arch rings and plain spandrels. The central pier has round cutwaters which rise as buttresses stopping immediately below the coping to the parapet. There is a continuous band at both impost level and at the base of the parapets. The parapets have plain chamfered coping. The bridge has been widened at the south-east and the north-west abutments tapering inwards to the central pier, the widening being in the form of shuttered concrete with the ashlar parapets realigned above. Concrete repairs elsewhere appear to be more restricted, being skims of render over existing stonework.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890)
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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