Long Bridge
Long Bridge, Barnstaple
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384979
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Long Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- Long Bridge, Barnstaple
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1384979
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Long Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Long Bridge, Barnstaple
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:
- Long Bridge, Barnstaple
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55778 32921
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/03/2019
SS5532
684-1/4/1
BARNSTAPLE
Long Bridge
19/01/51
GV
I
Road bridge over the River Taw, including causeways. C13 in origin except for the three arches on the town side, replaced in 1589 (Pevsner). Widened three times at least, once by James Green in 1834, most recently in the 1960s, using concrete faced with rubble. Grey rubble with ashlar arch rings to one of the later phases; rubble parapet. Approximately 159 metres long. Sixteen arches with the pointed medieval arches of the 3m (10 ft) wide original visible behind the later segmental arches; cutwaters; platband at road level; plain parapet.
This is an important medieval bridge on a very large scale.
Listing NGR: SS5577832921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485438
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cruse, J B, The Long Bridge of Barnstaple, (1982)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 153
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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