BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE, THE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330663
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE, THE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1330663
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE, THE AVENUE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER GREAT OUSE, THE AVENUE

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Godmanchester
National Grid Reference:: TL 24369 71195

Details

Godmanchester THE AVENUE 1. ---------- 5140 TL 2471 3/5 Bridge over the River Great Ouse 28 11 50. II

2 Circa 1784, with considerable modern repair. Red brick, with 8 segmental arches. Added half-round gault brick cutwaters on west side. Brick parapet walls with stone coping. Plaque in centre of east wall, now unreadable but was a copy of the inscription which appeared on the previous bridge: 'Robertus Cooke, exaquis emersus, hoc viatoribus sacrum DD. 1637'. The causeway, of which this bridge forms a part was constructed in 1776 and completed in 1784. (RCHM 4).

Listing NGR: TL2436971195

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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.