BEALES LANE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY

WEYBRIDGE, ELMBRIDGE, SURREY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1436171
Date first listed:: 20-Mar-2006
List Entry Name:: BEALES LANE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY
Statutory Address:: WEYBRIDGE, ELMBRIDGE, SURREY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1436171
Date first listed:: 20-Mar-2006
List Entry Name:: BEALES LANE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY
Statutory Address 1:: WEYBRIDGE, ELMBRIDGE, SURREY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: WEYBRIDGE, ELMBRIDGE, SURREY

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Elmbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ0742365473

Details

WEYBRIDGE

BEALES LANE FOOTBRIDGE OVER THE RIVER WEY

II

River footbridge. Later C19, built between 1868 and 1898. It carries a footpath over the river Wey from Beales Lane to Whittet's Ait. EXTERIOR: Constructed of cast and wrought iron with a concrete aggregate deck and approach. Span of 18m, comprising a segmental arch with twelve wrought iron latticed panels, each panel capped with iron ball finials and alternate panels have iron brackets to the base. The ends have square cast iron piers with pyramidal tops with ball finials. The pathway and approach is of cement aggregate. The southern approach retains four tapering cast iron bollards, three of which have a central ball-shaped projection and ball finials. The northern end has three identical cast iron bollards. HISTORY: The exact date of construction is not at present known and the bridge itself is not dated. Designs, held in the Surrey History Centre, for a very similar bridge, which was to have been built further upstream at Byfleet, were dated 1846 but never constructed. The Tithe map of 1844 shows a bridge in this position. The Ordnance Survey map of 1868 shows it as disused and the map of 1898 shows it as being in use again, suggesting the bridge was built between 1868 and 1898. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A later C19 single span cast and wrought iron footbridge retaining also its approach path furniture, an intact and architecturally embellished example of an uncommon building type.

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.