Description

SY 29 SE AXMOUTH SEATON ROAD
14/28
18.11.76 Bridge Cottage

II

Cottage - former toll house. 1877. Toll house to the adjacent Axmouth Bridge
designed by Philip Brannon and the first bridge to be built of concrete in England.
The small single storey toll house is also built of mass concrete, smooth render
treated to simulate horizontal rustication. Tarred segmental arched roof, the eaves
carried over on road side to form canopy on large brackets with splayed bay beneath
to right and central doorway. Right and left hand return elevations rusticated, two
casement windows. Chimney stack over segmental gables.
Reference; E de Maré page 215, The Bridges of Britain.

Listing NGR: SY2519889972

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462687

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)