CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE)

CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE), SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382162
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE)
Statutory Address:: CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE), SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382162
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE)
Statutory Address 1:: CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE), SOUTH STRATFORD 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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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:: CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 50 (PRESTON HILL FARM BRIDGE), SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Preston Bagot
National Grid Reference:: SP1659563940

Details

SP16SE 1457-1/5/97 04/01/90

PRESTON BAGOT SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL Canal Bridge No.50 II

Also known as: Preston Hill Farm Bridge SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL. Split bridge. c1812-1816, restored 1980s. Brick abutments and walls, with cast-iron rails and decks. Abutments support 2 cantilevered decks with integral x-framed handrails and are split for tow ropes. Splayed parapet walls with brick copings, rebuilt 1980s. The South Stratford Canal was constructed between 1793-1816 at a cost of £500,000. 13.5 miles of the canal from Kingswood Junction, Lapworth to Stratford-upon-Avon was leased by the National Trust in 1960 from the British Waterways Board for restoration. The National Trust acquired the freehold c1964.

Listing NGR: SP1659563940

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Legacy System number:: 482528
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.