Low Gardens Bridge

LOW GARDENS BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380167
Date first listed:
15-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:
Low Gardens Bridge
Statutory Address:
LOW GARDENS BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380167
Date first listed:
15-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:
Low Gardens Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
LOW GARDENS BRIDGE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
LOW GARDENS BRIDGE

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lowther
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
NY 52109 25028

Details

NY 52 NW YANWATH AND EAMONT BRIDGE

1266/9/10006 Low Gardens Bridge

II


Road bridge. Mid-late C18 or earlier, with C19 alterations. Coursed and squared rubble sandstone with dressed block to parapets walls and ashlar copings. Wide, single span shallow arch, with embanked and ramped abutments with stone facings. The arch is formed of 2 tiers of thin rubble voussoirs, with rubble spandrel infill, which support more precisely coursed dressed masonry parapet walls. The bridge spans the River Lowther, which formes the boundary between the parishes of Lowther and Yanwath and Eamont Bridge. An impressive and little - altered road bridge of vernacular origin and scale, later enhanced when in estate ownership. See also Lowther Parish ( item 1266/9/10008 ).

Listing NGR: NY5210925028

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
479708
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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