Yeo Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Bridge.
Yeo Bridge
- WRENN ID
- secret-copper-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HARBERTON SX75NE Yeo Bridge 5/392
GV II
Road bridge over Harbourne River. Dated 1688, widened on north side circa early C19. Slate rubble, single span with segmental arch. The voussoirs are long slates. The bridge appears to have originally been hump-backed and the original parapet survives with vertical slate coping and with inscription tablet on south side over the arch. The abutments were lengthened and the parapets raised over the abutments when the bridge was widened on the north side with a segmental arch with dressed stone voussoirs and vertical slates in the parapet. The tablet above arch on the south side is inscribed: "New built at the Counteys charges 1688 John Symons Gent, John Richards Tresurer" Only briefly mentioned by Henderson and Jervoise - "had early in nineteenth centure a single arch of 13 feet span cvarrying a 15 feet roadway". Source C Henderson and E Jervoise, Old Devon Bridges, page 38.
Listing NGR: SX7584659486
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