Bovey Bridge
BOVEY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334104
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bovey Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BOVEY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334104
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bovey Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOVEY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
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:
- BOVEY BRIDGE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovey Tracey
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 81453 78229
Details
BOVEY TRACEY STATION ROAD, Bovey Tracey SX 8178
11/87 Bovey Bridge - 23.8.55 GV II
Bridge over River Bovey at south-west end of Fore Street. Probably built in 1642 (datestone) and widened in 1852. Stone, partly rubble and partly ashlar, with steel footbridge added on north-west side. Bridge consists of two segmental arches, the central pier with cutwater on each side. South-east side has parapet with coping, carried round the cutwater to form a refuge. North-west parapet (rebuilt) has 2 re-set datestones inscribed 1642. The north-west half of the bridge, including the cutwater, is of ashlar. The south-east half is mainly of rubble with ashlar abutments and cutwater. Sources: G P Jones, Notes on Bovey Tracey, 1826 with additions by H F Williams in 1962 (typescript in Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter) p.23. Devon Quarter Sessions records, 1842-3 and 1852-3 (Devon Record Office, Devon Q/S 1/29, pp.113, 139, 168, 198, 218; 1/30, pp.486, 517, 638, 664).
Listing NGR: SX8145378229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84532
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, G P, Notes on Bovey Tracey, (1826)
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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