Bellotts Road Bridge
BELLOTTS ROAD BRIDGE, BELLOTTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394496
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Bellotts Road Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BELLOTTS ROAD BRIDGE, BELLOTTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394496
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-2010
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Bellotts Road Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELLOTTS ROAD BRIDGE, BELLOTTS ROAD
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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:
- BELLOTTS ROAD BRIDGE, BELLOTTS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73313 64584
Details
BELLOTTS ROAD Bellotts Road Bridge
II 26/01/10
Single arch road bridge over railway built in 1839. It forms part of the Great Western Railway, chief engineer I.K.Brunel. MATERIALS: constructed of squared coursed white limestone with freestone dressings, over a brick arch. The four-centred Tudor arch is framed by moulded freestone voussoirs and flanked by buttresses with set-offs. The parapet has triangular coping. There is some brick patching to the arch.
HISTORY: The bridge was constructed in 1839 as part of the Bristol to Bath section of I.K. Brunel's Great Western Railway; the resident engineer for the Bristol/Bath Division was G.A. Frere. The line was opened on the broad gauge between Bristol and Bath on August 31st 1840. Bellots Road Bridge is the western of three GWR road bridges built in Twerton, (from west to east: Bellotts Road, Brook Road and Brougham Hayes) all to the east of Twerton Viaduct (qv). The bridges were built to accommodate field tracks, as shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, in what was still in 1840 a rural village; the suburban development of the area was to come in the later C19.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: Bellotts Road Bridge, built in 1839 for the GWR, is Listed at grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural: Tudor-gothic design which is characteristic of work on the Bristol-Bath Division of the GWR. * Historic: The GWR was one of the earliest established railway companies in England and thus the bridge is an early example (1839) of a railway structure dating from the pioneering phase in national railway development. * Association: The bridge is constructed to a design by the engineer and architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel, widely perceived as one of the most important transport engineers of the C19. * Intactness: It survives relatively intact, despite some patching to the arch. * Group value: Strong group value with other listed structures on the GWR especially nearby Twerton Viaduct and Brook Road Bridge. This group value is enhanced by the structures' shared architectural style.
Listing NGR: ST7331364584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509896
- 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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