British Railways Viaduct

BRITISH RAILWAYS VIADUCT, ASHFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1022608
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
Statutory Address:
BRITISH RAILWAYS VIADUCT, ASHFIELD ROAD
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Date:
2002-11-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1022608
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
Statutory Address 1:
BRITISH RAILWAYS VIADUCT, ASHFIELD ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
BRITISH RAILWAYS VIADUCT, ASHFIELD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 83741 32946

Details

BURNLEY

SD8332NE ASHFIELD ROAD 906-1/15/5 (North side) 29/09/77 British Railways Viaduct

GV II

Railway viaduct. 1847-8. For the East Lancashire Railway Company. Coursed rock-faced sandstone blocks with freestone dressings and red brick soffits to the arches. Straight line approx 400m long. 15 semicircular arches with rusticated voussoirs, carried on slightly battered piers with plain imposts bands carried round; with a continuous chamfered cornice and low coped parapets (part damaged). A conspicuous and imposing feature of the urban landscape, closing the view north-east from the town centre. Forms a group with Clifton Street railway bridge approx 100m west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8374132946

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466978
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