Portwood Bridge
PORTWOOD BRIDGE, KING STREET EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346212
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Portwood Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- PORTWOOD BRIDGE, KING STREET EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346212
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Portwood Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTWOOD BRIDGE, KING STREET EAST
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:
- PORTWOOD BRIDGE, KING STREET EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89726 90829
Details
The following building shall be added:
SJ8990 STOCKPORT KING STREET EAST
701-0/0/10001 Portwood Bridge II
Public Road Bridge over River Mersey. Late C18 or early C19. Large dressed sandstone blocks. Two semi-elliptical arches with plain voussoirs alternately raised, springing from a central pier with triangular cutwaters both up and down stream; plain central pilaster and terminal pilasters, plain band, flat deck protected by parapets of massive rectangular blocks with ridged coping. South-west corner has short return incorporating a blocked semi-circular arch. Granite set paving to deck. Built into the centre of the inner face of the west parapet is a tapered cast-iron post with a rounded top, a horizontal band inscribed "1332", and vertical inscriptions "MANOR" above the band and "BARONY/STOCKPORT" below. HISTORY: not known, but probably built by a private agency rather than (e.g.) a turnpike trust.
Listing NGR: SJ8972690829
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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