Building record 0446503001 - PEPPER BOXES & BRIDGE ON RIVER WYE

Grade II. C18. Square flint rubble turrets with raised quoins and cornices. Hipped old tiled roofs with tall finials. Each turret has brick panel, containing door to road, and flanks bridge of flint rubble and brick with solid parapet (B9).
At the south-eastern end of West Wycombe Park, Pepperpots Bridge was created to complete the view for the Dashwoods, looking southeast from the park; whilst looking northwest from the bridge, it also provides a good view of the park and house. The carriageway deck is approximately 12.5m wide, accommodating two lanes of traffic and generous pedestrian walkways on both sides. The bridge is constructed of red brick and flint, with parapets capped with rounded brick. The single low brick arch has a span of 4.5m [or 6.5m] and sits on stone imposts. The abutments and parapets develop into lengthy walls of the same materials and style, stretching both north and south for several hundred metres. The distinguishing features of this bridge are the two tall towers at each abutment on the west (park) side. Constructed of the same flint and brick, they are about 3m square and 6.5m tall with roofs and chimneys. Doors on the bridge side lead to the interior and the original rear windows have been filled in with modern concrete blocks. Designed 1778-1780 by Nicholas Revett (B27).
Located to the south of the Gothic Alcove, this bridge on the Marlow Road (Chapel Lane) also served as the dam regulating the level of the lower lake. Designed by Revett, the brick and flint rubble bridge is far from neo-classical and the two square turrets (the Pepperboxes) on the western side are decidedly Italianate, rather in the same manner as the Sawmill pavilions. The structure of the Pepperboxes Bridge was demolished in the 1930s, and a flat road deck substituted. According to Richard Wheeler, a new façade on the upstream side was built in the 1980s at the instigation of the National Trust (B13).