Bridge on Bank Hall Drive Adjacent to Down Lee Farm
BRIDGE ON BANK HALL DRIVE ADJACENT TO DOWN LEE FARM, BANK HALL DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396455
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge on Bank Hall Drive Adjacent to Down Lee Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE ON BANK HALL DRIVE ADJACENT TO DOWN LEE FARM, BANK HALL DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396455
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge on Bank Hall Drive Adjacent to Down Lee Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE ON BANK HALL DRIVE ADJACENT TO DOWN LEE FARM, BANK HALL DRIVE
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:
- BRIDGE ON BANK HALL DRIVE ADJACENT TO DOWN LEE FARM, BANK HALL DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chapel-en-le-Frith
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 05255 79627
Reasons for Designation
The bridge of 1830, adjacent to Down Lee Farm on Bank Hall Drive, Chapel en le Frith is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Interest: For its simple, but carefully executed, embossed decorative detail and date stone.
* Historic Interest: For its association with John Frith, a prominent figure locally, and part of an influential family nationally.
* Group Value: For its association with Bank Hall (listed Grade II), the related gates, gate piers and screen (also listed Grade II) as well as other listed bridges in the village of similar date and style.
Details
CHAPEL EN LE FRITH
178/0/10009 BANK HALL DRIVE 11-FEB-11 Bridge on Bank Hall Drive adjacent to Down Lee Farm
II Bridge of 1830 by John Frith
MATERIALS: Constructed of coursed Ashlar grit stone blocks.
EXTERIOR: The bridge comprises a low arch with a flat string course, mounted by low parapet walls. The parapets stand to a height of approximately 0.75m above the road surface, with low square pilasters at each end, decorated with an embossed eight-pointed star set within a diamond. The parapets are capped with a curved, decorative coping.
HISTORY: The bridge was built in 1830 by John Frith and, central to the eastern parapet wall, carries a date stone which reads 'JF1830'and is embellished with folate and fluted decoration. The bridge is situated on the drive to Bank Hall, once the seat of the Frith family. The current Bank Hall was rebuilt in the 1870s and is listed at Grade II, as are the gates and gate piers. John Frith was the last in the direct line of the Friths, and the brother of Squire Frith. Squire Frith was a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant for the county, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1781, and colonel of the Bowden Chapel volunteers, formed in response to Napoleonic invasion threats. REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The bridge adjacent to Down Lee Farm on Bank Hall Drive, Chapel en le Frith is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Interest: For its simple, but carefully executed, embossed decorative detail and date stone.
* Historic Interest: For its association with John Frith, a prominent figure locally, and part of an influential family nationally.
* Group Value: For its association with Bank Hall (listed Grade II), the related gates, gate piers and screen (also listed Grade II), as well as other listed bridges in the village of similar date and style.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 507819
- 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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