Folly Bridge With Former Toll House

FOLLY BRIDGE WITH FORMER TOLL HOUSE, FOLLY BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1319913
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Folly Bridge With Former Toll House
Statutory Address:
FOLLY BRIDGE WITH FORMER TOLL HOUSE, FOLLY BRIDGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1319913
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:
Folly Bridge With Former Toll House
Statutory Address 1:
FOLLY BRIDGE WITH FORMER TOLL HOUSE, FOLLY 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FOLLY BRIDGE WITH FORMER TOLL HOUSE, FOLLY BRIDGE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Oxford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 51438 05559

Details

FOLLY BRIDGE 1. 1485 Folly Bridge, with Former Toll-house SP 5105 NW 12/598 12.1.54. II 2. Rebuilt in 1826; on the North West corner is a contemporary l-storeyed stuccoed toll house. An iron girder bridge was made over the South stream in 1888. A very early river crossing, used by the Saxons and bridged by the Normans in the late C11. The Saxon causeway has been discovered (1971) under St Aldate's Street. The present bridge has a main span with 3 arches, and a single subsidiary span to the South. Rusticated stone. The medieval bridge was also known as "Friar Bacon's Bridge".

Listing NGR: SP5143805559

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Legacy System number:
245442
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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