Bridge Over River Beane is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Bridge.

Bridge Over River Beane

WRENN ID
kindled-timber-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1986
Type
Bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

WATTON-AT-STONE WALKERN ROAD TL 21 NE Watton-at-Stone 3/200 Bridge over River Beane - - II

Road bridge. c.1830. Caleb Hitch's patent brick with some later stock brick repair. Stone dressings. Triple segmental arch, that to centre larger. Stone capped cutwaters to both sides. Slightly splayed to banks over outer arches. Pilaster strips on parapets at angles of splays. End piers with moulded stone caps. Curved abutment walls at ends. Bands to parapets, that to E largely rebuilt. Segmental brick coping to parapets. Hitch bricks, patented in 1828, are 1 foot long by 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep with interlocking flanges and resemble rat-trap bond. (W Branch Johnson, Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, 1970).

Listing NGR: TL2972219766

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