Middleton Bridge Over River Rawthey

MIDDLETON BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384163
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1954
List Entry Name:
Middleton Bridge Over River Rawthey
Statutory Address:
MIDDLETON BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384163
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:
Middleton Bridge Over River Rawthey
Statutory Address 1:
MIDDLETON BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD

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

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:
MIDDLETON BRIDGE OVER RIVER RAWTHEY, KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sedbergh
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD6301089751

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1146393. thie entry was removed from the List on 19 January 2017.


SD68NW
162-1/9/316
16/03/54

SEDBERGH
KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD

Middleton Bridge over River Rawthey

(Formerly listed as: Middleton Bridge over River Rawthey, that part in Sedbergh CP)
(Formerly Listed as: KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD
Middleton Bridge, over the River Lune)

II

Public road bridge over River Rawthey. Probably C17; altered
in 1911. Mixed random rubble. One wide segmental arch with
rubble voussoirs, a stone slate archband and an upper layer of
voussoirs over the centre of this; re-built parapets with
rounded coping, each with a square refuge corbelled out in the
centre (added in 1911) and the ends splayed outwards.


Listing NGR: SD 63010 89751

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
484595
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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