Maidens Bridge
MAIDENS BRIDGE, FORTY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391507
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Maidens Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDENS BRIDGE, FORTY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391507
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Maidens Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDENS BRIDGE, FORTY HILL
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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.
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:
- MAIDENS BRIDGE, FORTY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Enfield (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 34249 98768
Details
790/0/10099 FORTY HILL 23-AUG-05 Maiden's Bridge
II
Road bridge across Maiden's Brook,Circa 1800, Architect unknown
Materials: London stock brick with stone dressings
Description: Single span bridge flanked by circular flood arches. Projections to form four narrow pedestrian refuges. Stone string course and copings to parapets. Terminals to iron ties either side of principal arch. Iron plaque on east elevation of west parapet. Inscription reads: County of Middlesex. Take notice that this bridge (which is a county bridge) is insufficient to carry weights beyond the ordinary traffic of the District and that the owners and persons in charge of locomotive traction engines and heavily laden carriages are warned against using the bridge for the passage of any such engines or carriages. Richard Nicholson, Clerk of the Peace. Brick paved stream bed beneath principal arch with iron retaining plate to east. Bank retaining walls of brick immediately adjoining bridge.
History: The bridge is the final such in a sequence believed to have occupied the site since before the Norman Conquest and was built to replace the earlier timber and brick bridge which had proved too narrow. Robinson, in his history of Enfield (1823), reports that `this bridge was built of brick, the whole width of the road, about twenty years ago.' The present plaque dates to the early 20th century replacing one of circa 1824 which threatened anyone damaging the bridge with deportation for life. Some parapet rebuilding of 1968 after the bridge was struck by a lorry, which prompted the current single flow traffic system. Maiden's Bridge is a simple yet attractively composed structure of circa 1800 which still performs the function for which it was constructed.
Sources Carter, V (ed.), 2000 Treasures of Enfield. Pages 58-9
Cherry, B & Pevsner, N, 1999 The Buildings of England. London 4: North. Page 450
Koch, E, 1935 Forty Hill Church and Parish
Robinson, W, 1823 History and antiquities of Enfield
Whitaker, C, 1911 An illustrated history, statistical and topopographical account of Enfield
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Koch, E, Forty Hill Church and Parish, (1935)
Whitaker, C, An illustrated history, statistical and topographical account of Enfield, (1911)
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 4, North, (1998 revised 2001), 450
Carter, V (ed), Treasures of Enfield, (2000), 58-9
Robinson, W, History and antiquities of Enfield, (1823)
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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