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Latitude: 52.1915 / 52°11'29"N
Longitude: -1.7003 / 1°42'0"W
OS Eastings: 420586
OS Northings: 254852
OS Grid: SP205548
Mapcode National: GBR 4LT.GYK
Mapcode Global: VHBY0.H50T
Plus Code: 9C4W57RX+JV
Entry Name: Clopton Bridge and Attached Former Toll House
Listing Date: 25 October 1951
Last Amended: 4 April 1994
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1204167
English Heritage Legacy ID: 366151
ID on this website: 101204167
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37
County: Warwickshire
District: Stratford-on-Avon
Civil Parish: Stratford-upon-Avon
Built-Up Area: Stratford-upon-Avon
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Stratford on Avon Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Building Road bridge Tollhouse
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2054 BRIDGE FOOT
604-1/6/6 Clopton Bridge and attached former
25/10/51 toll house
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDGETOWN
Clopton Bridge)
GV I
Bridge. c1484 with C16 and C17 repairs; widened and toll house
built 1814; footway added 1827; later parapets. For Sir Hugh
Clopton; footway by J Nicolls, made by the Eagle Foundry,
Birmingham.
Coursed squared stone and ashlar with cast-iron. 14 segmental
pointed arches with platt band and plain parapets over;
widened to north side, which has cutwaters. Cast-iron footway
to north side is cantilevered on lattice work brackets with
enriched spandrels; scrolled supports to posts, which support
panels of rails with semicircular links to head and foot.
10-sided toll house to south of west end has platt band and
crenellated parapet. Entrance, in porch to return, has
4-centred head and door of 4 arched panels, porch is
weather-boarded to return and rear. Windows have sills and
4-centred heads, most are blind, some have small-paned
casements of 2 pointed lights. Bell-form rainwater head.
The bridge was originally attached to a causeway to the west.
An important survival of a medieval bridge forming a
significant landscape feature. A Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(VCH: Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the
Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 9; Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 416).
Listing NGR: SP2058654852
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