WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE

WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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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:: WRENBURY FRITH BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL

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Date:: 1999-08-22
Reference:: IOE01/01725/34
Rights:: © Mr Howard W Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:: 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

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SJ 64 NW WRENBURY CUM FRITH SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL 2/86 Wrenbury Frith Bridge - II

The grade shall be amended to read Grade II * --------------------------------------------

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

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Legacy System number:: 422446
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.