Listed Building: CENTRAL AND EASTERNMOST PACKHORSE BRIDGES AND ADJOINING CAUSEWAY (1330298)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 547, 2, 32
Date assigned 01 March 1967
Date last amended

Description

SJ 46 NE HOCKENHULL C.P. PLATTS LANE 4767 6572 Hockenhull Platts 2/32 Central and easternmost "Packhorse Bridges" and adjoining causeway (formerly listed as Pack horse bridges, E side of group). 1/3/1967 II 2 humpback bridges and adjoining causeway: probably later C18. Dressed tooled red sandstone blocks. Bridge over the main channel of the River Gowy has a recessed segmental arch on mass concrete footings, plain parapet and chamfered coping joined by iron ties. Parapet turns and drops to form revetment walls, to approaches on either side. A contemporary stone-revetted causeway runs east to a second smaller bridge over clogged side channel. This is similar except for 2 triangular buttresses on the north side. The westernmost "Packhorse Bridge" and part of one of these bridges are in Cotton Edmunds parish. Listing NGR: SJ4765765730

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 55736. [Mapped features: #4940 55736; #10244 55736]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 4767 6573 (51m by 8m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46NE
Civil Parish COTTON EDMUNDS, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Jun 7 2010 2:01PM