Bridge At South Entrance To Farmyard Of Campsmount Home Farm

The bridge at the south entrance to the farmyard of Campsmount Home Farm is a Grade II listed structure built in the mid to late 18th century by John Carr for the Campsmount estate. It features a red brick arch, with the rest of the structure made of rubble limestone and ashlar sandstone dressings. The bridge has a single-span basket arch that carries a farm track over a gully, flanked by twin parapet walls that include planting beds between them. The arch is supported by ashlar springers and has alternately-raised, block-bonded brick voussoirs. Below the coped outer parapet walls, there is a band that ends at square piers topped with domed caps. The inner parapets align with the farm track and curve to meet the end piers. Although it is an impressive landscape feature of the estate, the area has been negatively affected by tipping in the gully. Campsmount, the home of the Yarborough and Cooke-Yarborough families, was demolished in 1959. Drawings of the bridge signed 'JC' are preserved in the Yarborough papers.