HOPWAS BRIDGE

HOPWAS BRIDGE, LICHFIELD ROAD, A51

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279484
Date first listed:: 10-May-1950
List Entry Name:: HOPWAS BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: HOPWAS BRIDGE, LICHFIELD ROAD, A51

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279484
Date first listed:: 10-May-1950
List Entry Name:: HOPWAS BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: HOPWAS BRIDGE, LICHFIELD ROAD, A51

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HOPWAS BRIDGE, LICHFIELD ROAD, A51

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Wigginton and Hopwas
County:: Staffordshire
District:: Tamworth (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK1808605128

Details

SK10NE 670-1/1/16

LICHFIELD ROAD, A51

Hopwas Bridge

11/05/50

II

Road bridge over River Tame. 1796. Ashlar. Five elliptical arches, three to west for flood water; piers have pointed cutwaters and paired Tuscan pilasters; frieze, roll-moulded band and plain coped parapet. The bridge was built after the former bridge was destroyed by flooding, as at Lady Bridge and Fazeley Bridge (q.v.).

The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1188576. That entry was removed from the List on 26 July 2016.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 July 2016.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 386473
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 151

Legal

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