Description

WALKHAMPTON
SX 57 SW
13/133 Huckworthy Bridge
14.6.52
- II*

Bridge over River Walkham. Late C15 or early C16 with some later repair. Granite
and slatestone rubble with squared granite cutwaters and arches, granite coping to
parapet walls. 2 arches, narrower 2-centred arch arch to north of 2 plain orders,
parapet wall corbelled out to south of east side, off-centre triangular cutwater
forming refuge, wider similar arch to south; bridge spans about 15 metres, about 2 1/2
metres across. Parapet walls about 80 centimetres high, splayed back at each end
and diminishing in height to north and south, extending about 4 metres to south
east, 20 metres to south-west (rebuilt C19), 8 metres to north-east and 4 metres to
north-west.

The asset was previously listed twice also under the parish of Sampford Spiney at List entry 1326220. This entry was removed from the List on 07/10/2014.
The List entry was amended on 23/01/1987.

Listing NGR: SX5314370538

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537418

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)