South Viaduct
SOUTH VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087894
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- South Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087894
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- South Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH VIADUCT
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wormhill
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Taddington
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK1395273214
Details
1. PARISHES OF WORMHILL AND TADDINGTON MILLERS DALE
SK17 SW South Viaduct
2/79 II*
GV
2.
This asset was subject to a minor amendment on 23/01/2015.
This asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1334962. This entry was removed from the list on 23/01/2015.
Viaduct. 1862-3, built by the Midland Railway for the main London to Manchester line.
Rock faced limestone with gritstone dressings to piers and abutments.
Wrought iron superstructure of segmental arch and spandrel construction. Three round-
arched masonry spans to west and three wrought iron spans to east, about eighty feet
from the ground. Each arch consists of five parallel ribs with lattice work strutting
filling the spandrels between the arch members and the deck above. Parapet iron railings to the deck with lattice work pattern. The viaduct crosses the dale obliquely so
that the ribs of each arch are staggered and the masonry piers are of irregular hexagon
plan.
Listing NGR: SK1395273214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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