Wrenbury Frith Bridge
WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357424
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wrenbury Frith Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01725/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357424
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wrenbury Frith Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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:
- WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrenbury cum Frith
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5843947616
Details
In the entry for:
SJ 64 NW WRENBURY CUM FRITH SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
2/86 Wrenbury Frith Bridge
- II
The grade shall be amended to read Grade II *
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WRENBURY CUM FRITH C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
SJ 54 NE
Wrenbury Frith Bridge
2/86
II
Farm bridge. c.1790. By Thomas Telford. Timber. Single span. A
wooden platform formed of planks laid between timber beams spans the
river at the level of, the bank. This is hinged at its northern edge
and raised and lowered by a counterbalancing beam weight which is
supported by two posts of square section on the northern bank which
carry two horizontal beams which have chains to their southern ends
connecting with the platform of the bridge and a weight to their
northern end. Iron tension rods run from the vertical beams to the
ends of the horizontal beams. There are 3 such bridges in the parish.
Listing NGR: SJ5843947616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422446
- 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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