Accommodation Bridge On Kennet And Avon Canal, 500 Metres East Of Honey Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. Bridge.
Accommodation Bridge On Kennet And Avon Canal, 500 Metres East Of Honey Street
- WRENN ID
- swift-lime-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1987
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ALTON - SU 16 SW 5/1 Accommodation Bridge on Kennet- Avon Canal, 500m east of Honey Street
GV II
Accommodation bridge, and second world war defences. c1807 and c1940. By John Rennie for Kennet and Avon Canal. Bridge of red brick with some purple vitrified bricks, c1940. Bridge of red brick with some purple vitrified bricks, splayed on plan and section. Limestone parapet. Bridge consists of 41cm brick bullnosed ring, and 3-course outset string at base of parapet. Half-round copings and caps to end piers. Cast-iron lozenge sign by Great Western Railway on rail stanchion. Bridge defended c1940 with 5 lines of iron stanchions (base only remains) and round solid drums, and on north side, a pillbox of hollow clayware pots with concrete roof and internal baffle wall. Five gun ports. The canal works and the defences are a group of some interest.
Listing NGR: SU1081761312
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