Aylesford Bridge

AYLESFORD BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1363113
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:
Aylesford Bridge
Statutory Address:
AYLESFORD BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1363113
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Aylesford Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
AYLESFORD BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
AYLESFORD BRIDGE, STATION ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:
Aylesford
National Grid Reference:
TQ 72941 58927

Details

AYLESFORD CP STATION ROAD TQ 7258 12/87 Aylesford Bridge (formerly listed as 25.8.59 The Bridge)

- I

Bridge. C14, central arch widened by removing a pier to allow passage for larger river traffic in 1824. Coursed and random rubblestone. 5 arches, that in centre wider, the outer 4-pointed and all double-chamfered with stone dressings. Sloping buttresses to piers with cut-waters below on rebuilt concrete foundations, revealed only at low tide. Octagonal and triangular canted stand-points resting on buttresses over the piers with 2 to the south of the central arch and 6 to the north. Stone-coped parapet. A barge-bed remains below the bridge, constructed from large baulks of timber (this part not listable). Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.

Listing NGR: TQ7294958946

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Legacy System number:
179262
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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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