Bridge on Old Coach Road

BRIDGE ON OLD COACH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380234
Date first listed:
19-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:
Bridge on Old Coach Road
Statutory Address:
BRIDGE ON OLD COACH ROAD
coach road bridge viewed from northeast
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380234
Date first listed:
19-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:
Bridge on Old Coach Road
Statutory Address 1:
BRIDGE ON OLD COACH ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRIDGE ON OLD COACH ROAD

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ulpha
National Park:
Lake District
National Grid Reference:
SD 18919 91925

Details

ULPHA

SD19SE Bridge On Old Coach Road
328/23/10012
19-APR-00

II

Road Bridge. C18 or earlier. Random Lakeland stone rubble with slab copings. Narrow rural overbridge with near- parallel abutments and low, roughly -coped parapet walls. Single arch span, with low segmental arch rising from boulder springers, and formed with narrow, elongated and roughly -shaped voussoirs. South end of the bridge with vertically-set flagstones as terminal piers to parapet walls. The bridge carries an old coach road over the Blea Beck into the Duddon valley.
HISTORY. This bridge carried a long- established rural routeway through the parish of Ulpha. Between 1844 and !845, the route was used a a coach link for the railway line then in the course of construction, and intended to pass through Broughton-in Furness to join the Whitehaven and Furness Junction line. This horse link was indicated in the railway timetables of the period.
A little- altered rural overbridge of C18 date, displaying typical regional vernacular detailing, and historically linked for a short period to the development of the Cumbrial railway network.

Listing NGR: SD1891991925

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
479996
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.

Ordnance survey map of Bridge on Old Coach Road

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