Grassington Bridge

GRASSINGTON BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316846
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Grassington Bridge
Statutory Address:
GRASSINGTON BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316846
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Grassington Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
GRASSINGTON BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GRASSINGTON BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Grassington
District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Threshfield
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD9980263854

Details

GRASSINGTON STATION ROAD SD 9863-9963 9/35 Grassington Bridge also known as Linton Bridge. 10.9.54 II Bridge over the River Wharfe. C17 origin, widened in 1780, parapet and road surface rebuilt 1824. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar. Overall length approximately 50 metres. 4 segmental arches with recessed voussoirs and pointed cutwaters which are carried up as pilasters which interrupt the string course and projecting band at road level. Slightly ridged parapet coping. In 1598 - 1602 the bridge was ruinous and oak trees were used to repair it; after rebuilding it was repaired in 1661 and widened on the upstream side fron 10 feet to 24 feet in 1780. The downstream parapet was probably also rebuilt but the bridge had a hump-back profile until 1824/5 when it was substantially rebuilt. The later alterations were no doubt made necessary by the large numbers of pack-horses fron the lead mines which crossed the river here on the route to Skipton and Gargrave. Spans the boundary with Threshfield parish. E, Jervoise, The Ancient Bridges of the North of England, 1973, p94. S. Brooks, History of Grassington, 1979, p41.

Listing NGR: SD9980663857

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Legacy System number:
324787
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Jervoise, E, The Ancient Bridges in the North of England, (1931), 41

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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.

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