HIGH BRIDGE

HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1190422
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1953
List Entry Name:: HIGH BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1190422
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-1953
List Entry Name:: HIGH BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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:: HIGH BRIDGE, RIDWARE ROAD

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Armitage with Handsacre
County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Mavesyn Ridware
National Grid Reference:: SK0921916753

Details

SK 01 NE; 6/13

ARMITAGE WITH HANDSACRE C.P., RIDWARE ROAD, High Bridge (that part in Armitage with Handsacre C.P.)

II*

Road bridge. 1830. Cast-iron bridge made by the Coalbrookdale Works, with rusticated ashlar abutments. Single segmental arch over the River Trent with cross patterned spandrels and a span of 140 feet. The abutments have a dentilled cornice and sweep forward to terminate in semi-octagonal piers with massive caps. On each side of the bridge, behind the abutments, is a flight of steps. The original iron parapet has been removed. The other part of High Bridge is Listed under Mavesyn Ridware C.P. B.o.E. p. 204.

Listing NGR: SK0921916753

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Legacy System number:: 272859
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 204

Legal

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