Hopton Court Bridge
HOPTON COURT BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383547
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Hopton Court Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- HOPTON COURT BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383547
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Hopton Court Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPTON COURT BRIDGE
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:
- HOPTON COURT BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hopton Wafers
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 63933 76678
Details
HOPTON WAFERS
SO6376 Hopton Court Bridge
582-1/10/138
GV II
Bridge for minor road over Hopton Brook. Late C18-early C19.
Brick and stone rubble.
Single round arch of 5.5 metre span on abutments rising 4.5
metres above the brook, with brick flanking buttresses. Stone
rubble side walls with 3 buttresses each side and splayed
approach walls. Brick central parapet with 2 brick string
courses. Stone rubble side parapets with the 2 string courses
continued in ashlar. Ashlar plain copings now mostly renewed
in concrete. Parapet and roadway probably raised.
Retaining walls on north-east side have brick-vaulted footway
under the road with ashlar segmental-arched openings.
(Blackwall A, E.R.D., C.eng., M.I.C.E., M.I.H.T.: Historic
Bridges of Shropshire: Shrewsbury: 1985-).
Listing NGR: SO6393376678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blackwall, A, Historic Bridges of Shropshire, (1985)
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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