PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349458
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349458
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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:: PACKHORSE BRIDGE ON DICK BROOK SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:: Astley and Dunley
National Grid Reference:: SO 78873 67233

Details

SO 76 NE ASTLEY CP ASTLEY SO 789673

3/44 Packhorse Bridge on Dick Brook south of - Church of St Peter

- II

Marked on map as Newbridge. Bridge known as Packhorse Bridge. Late C18 - early C19, possibly earlier. Hammer dressed ashlar. Single arch with continuous impost band and pronounced keystones; V-jointed voussoirs, arch flanked by plain pilasters; partially damaged quadrant abuttments; parapet obscured June 1984. Possibly related to iron smelting works complex on Dick Brook dated to mid C17: furnace, forge, locks (not included) and pack-horse bridge all appear to have been constructed of similar large well-dressed sandstone blocks. The Early Industrial Complex at Astley, Worcestershire, P J Brown, Post- Medieval Archaeology 16, 1982, pp 1 - 19.

Listing NGR: SO7887367233

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Legacy System number:: 152272
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Post Medieval Archaeology' in Post Medieval Archaeology, , Vol. 16, (1982), 1-19

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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.