Survey Data
Reg No
12305012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1785 - 1790
Coordinates
240700, 164836
Date Recorded
19/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Two-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, dated 1788. Random rubble stone walls with cut-stone triangular cut-water to pier, and cut-stone coping to parapets. Pair of round arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Nuenna River with grass banks to river.
Appraisal
An attractive modest-scale bridge forming an important element of the late eighteenth-century civil engineering heritage of Freshford. The construction in rubble stone serves to assimilate the bridge pleasantly into the surrounding landscape while the elegant profile of the arches contributes to the architectural design aesthetic of the composition.