Bridge over River Beane at NGR TL 3131 1411, Goldings Park Hertford, England
Listed Building Data
Bridge over River Beane at NGR TL 3131 1411, Goldings Park has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1268854
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 9 September 1996
- Name
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3131 1411, GOLDINGS PARK
- Location
- BRIDGE OVER RIVER BEANE AT NGR TL 3131 1411, GOLDINGS PARK, NORTH ROAD
- Parish
- Hertford
- District
- East Hertfordshire
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 31310 14110
- Easting
- 531310.0000
- Northing
- 214110.0000
Listed Building Description
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HERTFORD
TL3114SW NORTH ROAD, Goldings 817-1/5/301 Bridge over River Beane at NGR TL 3131 1411, Goldings Park
II
Bridge. 1869. One of a series built by Robert Smith, owner of Goldings. Red and yellow brick, flint and stone dressings. Elliptical arch with 3 headers of reds, alternating with stone voussoirs, stone impost bands and stone triple keyblock with outer arch of yellow headers. Flint panels in spandrels, battered piers to abutments which have flint panels and red brick quoins, stone band; cornice of chamfered cream header bricks set alternatively upright and inverted. Red brick corbel band and stone upper band, red panelled red brick piers with moulded stone caps, low pyramidal tops. Stack bonded brick balusters and stone copings. HISTORICAL NOTE: Robert Smith inherited the Goldings Estate in 1861 and demolished the old mansion, diverting and reconstructing the nearby Watton Turnpike, and building a series of bridges in 1869 to carry the road, and the drive to Goldings over the 'Goldings Canal' and mill race of the River Beane. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Campbell D: Goldings: a curious Hertfordshire Mansion: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 34-5, 38; Dixon R: Victorian Architecture: London: 1978-: 50-2, 257; Girouard M: The Victorian Country House: New Haven and London: 1979-: 84-5, 438).
Listing NGR: TL3131014110
