Bridge Immediately North East Of Dartington Lodge

The bridge located immediately northeast of Dartington Lodge carries the drive to Dartington Hall over Bidwell Brook. It was likely built in the mid-19th century and altered in 1931 by O P Milne. The structure is made of limestone rubble with dressed stone voussoirs forming a single span roughly elliptical arch, featuring a slightly larger keystone. In the 1931 alterations, O P Milne added cambered parapets with dressed stone coping that extend out from the ends to circular terminal piers, which are designed like scrolls in plan. The parapets at the north end are asymmetrically curved, extending further than those at the south end. The south end piers have cast cement caps, with the southwest pier shaped like a fish and the southeast pier featuring a face cub. The parapets are a 20th-century addition. A painting from 1883, held by the occupier of Dartington Lodge, depicts the lodge and bridge without the parapets and terminal piers.