Barle Bridge at NGR SS 9120 2782
BARLE BRIDGE AT NGR SS 9120 2782, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247899
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Barle Bridge at NGR SS 9120 2782
- Statutory Address:
- BARLE BRIDGE AT NGR SS 9120 2782, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247899
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Barle Bridge at NGR SS 9120 2782
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARLE BRIDGE AT NGR SS 9120 2782, BRIDGE STREET
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:
- BARLE BRIDGE AT NGR SS 9120 2782, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dulverton
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91206 27820
Details
SS9127 DULVERTON CP BRIDGE STREET
15/65 Barle Bridge at NGR SS 9120 2782
6.4.59
GV II
Road bridge over the River Barle. Medieval in origin, repaired 1624, subsequently widened 1819 by John Stone, repaired 1866 and l952-3 after flood damage. Local stone random rubble, rubble voussoirs, ashlar string course, flat coping to parapet and 3 tier stepped coping to buttresses. Five arch span with pointed cutwater buttresses between 4-centred arch openings. There is said to be a tablet on the exterior of the parapet inscribed "This bridge repaired in the year of Our Lord God 1624" and "John Stone 1819". scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 267), (Bentley and Murless, Somerset Roads, 1985; Jervoise, Ancient Bridges of Somerset, 1930; Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9120627820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
Jervoise, , Ancient Bridges of Somerset, (1930)
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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