Listed Building: The Green Bridge (1371315)

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Grade II
NHLE UID 1371315
Date assigned 06 September 1988
Date last amended

Description

Bridge. Mid C18. Dressed limestone. 3-arch bridge. Low depressed arches, broad piers, recessed rectangular panels above arches, uniform vermiculated rustication and corbel blocks to cornice. No balustrades. Diagonal retaining walls to west side, with similar rustication. Bridge formerly stood between two lakes, the lower of which survives. The bridge is higher to west side and formerly acted as a weir or low dam maintaining level of water in lake to east side, now drained. The bridge carried a drive from Horton Hall (demolished 1936) through park to the Menagerie (q.v.) and is close to the icehouse (q.v.).

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Location

Grid reference Centred SP 82412 53788 (6m by 22m) Central
Civil Parish HACKLETON, West Northamptonshire (formerly South Northants District)

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Nov 7 2022 1:23PM

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