Baber Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 2002. Road bridge.

Baber Bridge

WRENN ID
tangled-bastion-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hounslow
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 2002
Type
Road bridge
Source
Historic England listing

Description

787/0/10129 STAINES ROAD 08-AUG-02 Baber Bridge

II

Baber Bridge, Staines Road. Road bridge, 1798, built by the County of Middlesex. Pink-grey stock brick, lower courses of yellow sandstone, coping to parapet and date-stone of Portland stone. Single arch. Inner arch and lower part of south elevation rendered. HISTORY: a timber bridge known as the Beaver or Baber Bridge is recorded as early as the late 13th century. The present bridge was rebuilt in 1798, having been found to be unsafe. It carries the road from Hounslow to Staines, and is a survivor from the great age of road improvements. SOURCE: Report of the Committee of Magistrates appointed to make enquiry respecting the Public Bridges of the County of Middlesex (1826), 325-27.

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