Powder Mills Clapper Bridge
POWDER MILLS CLAPPER BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305983
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Powder Mills Clapper Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- POWDER MILLS CLAPPER BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305983
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Powder Mills Clapper Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWDER MILLS CLAPPER BRIDGE
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:
- POWDER MILLS CLAPPER BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmoor Forest
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6285677129
Details
LYDFORD
SX 67 NW
11/21 Powder Mills Clapper Bridge
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- II
Clapper bridge over Cherry Brook. Early-mid C19. Rough granite blocks to pier and
jambs, and granite slab lintels. The bridge is of 2 spans. Drill-holes in a number
of the stones suggest that the bridge was constructed after the turn of the C19
(when this method of splitting granite was introduced) and it may date from c.1844
when the nearby powder mills were built. This form of bridge construction on
Dartmoor was first used probably in early medieval times but later examples such as
this one also occur.
Source : Dartmoor : A New Study - Roads and Tracks : R Groves.
Listing NGR: SX6285677129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92754
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Groves, R, Dartmoor A New Study in Roads And Tracks, ()
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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