FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54

FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54, THE GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323729
Date first listed:: 27-Mar-1998
List Entry Name:: FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54
Statutory Address:: FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54, THE GROVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323729
Date first listed:: 27-Mar-1998
List Entry Name:: FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54
Statutory Address 1:: FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54, THE GROVE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FOOTBRIDGE TO REAR OF NUMBERS 52 AND 54, THE GROVE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Havering (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 55486 85313

Details

TQ 58 NE THE GROVE, Upminster

940/13/10013 Footbridge to rear of Nos. 52 and 54

II

Footbridge and eyecatcher. Circa 1765, probably by James Paine who laid out the estate of Gaynes Park in the 1760s for Sir James Esdaile, Lord Mayor of London 1777-8. Red brick bonded with wide lime mortar joints with clear signs of an original rendered finish. Single span with round-headed arch, the whole approximately two metres high at its apex and three metres wide. Banded rustication to sides of opening and with splayed voussoirs above; central keystone on north missing. Tapering side sections, curving outwards either side of main opening. South side of plainer onstruction, its opening blocked with Fletton brick c1938. Groin-vaulted interior. Sources: T L Wilson "History and Topography of Upminster" (2nd ed. 1880), pp 138-9 and Peter Leach "James Paine" (1988) p212.

Listing NGR: TQ5548685313

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 469162
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Leach, P, The Life and Work of James Paine, (1988), 212
Wilson, T L , History and Topography of Upminster, (1880), 138-9

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.