Bridge Carrying Drive to Compton Verney Over Compton Pool
BRIDGE CARRYING DRIVE TO COMPTON VERNEY OVER COMPTON POOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381871
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Carrying Drive to Compton Verney Over Compton Pool
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE CARRYING DRIVE TO COMPTON VERNEY OVER COMPTON POOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381871
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Carrying Drive to Compton Verney Over Compton Pool
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE CARRYING DRIVE TO COMPTON VERNEY OVER COMPTON POOL
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:
- BRIDGE CARRYING DRIVE TO COMPTON VERNEY OVER COMPTON POOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Verney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31269 52894
Details
COMPTON VERNEY
SP35SW COMPTON VERNEY
1901-1/6/65 Bridge carrying drive to Compton
06/02/52 Verney over Compton Pool
(Formerly Listed as:
COMPTON VERNEY
Bridge carrying drive over Compton
Pool)
GV II*
Bridge. C18 with C19 parapet. Probably by Robert Adam (or
possibly Lancelot `Capability' Brown). Limestone ashlar. 3
segmental arches have archivolts; cutwaters are decayed;
modillioned cornice to balustraded parapet. Piers to ends have
plain round-headed niches and originally served as plinth to
lead sphinxes similar to those on the Adam gateway screen at
Sion. Abutments have plain parapets terminating in ball
finials. An important element in the setting of the house and
in `Capability' Brown's landscaping of 1768-74.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 239; Country Life: Bolton,
AT: Compton Verney, Warwickshire, a seat of Lord Willoughby de
Broke: London: 1913-: 528-35).
Listing NGR: SP3126952894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 239
Country Life in Country Life, (1913), 528-35
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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