Cattawade Bridge

TM 13 SW BRANTHAM CATTAWADE STREET 7/16 Cattawade Bridge

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Road bridge crossing Cattawade Creek, River Stour. C18 red brick, English bond with some later repairs in Flemish bond. Cast iron tie plates. Stone and brick coping. Stone band below parapets. Of 3 graduated arches with pilaster buttressess between and at ends. Each arch with concrete plastered rim central cast iron diamond tie plate with crossed bands. The parapet wall carries through to north and south on both faces with various pilasters. A spur wall follows the river bank to the north east. The fine cast iron tie plates are noteworthy, circular, with raised, moulded and beaded rims, central foliate rosette with inner rosette of sepals from which issue the tie rods. There are 10 to each face. David Alderton, John Booker Batsford Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of East Anglia 1980. White's Directory of Suffolk 1844.

Listing NGR: TM1017733041