Railway Bridge Over Southdown Road
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD, SOUTHDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge Over Southdown Road
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD, SOUTHDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge Over Southdown Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD, SOUTHDOWN ROAD
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.
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:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD, SOUTHDOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14100 13442
Details
TL 11 SW HARPENDEN SOUTHDOWN ROAD HARPENDEN
5/78 Railway bridge over Southdown Road
II
Railway bridge. Circa 1865 by Liddell and Barlow. Extended on W side circa 1880, when the London-Midland track was made quadruple. Cambridge blue brick. The E side has stone dressings. The W side is mostly in dark red stock brick. Semicircular tunnel arch crossing the road at a steep angle, giving the arch the appearance of a parabola. The elevations have 1 and 2 broad plain piers, left and right of the arch. Deep parapet. The E side has a stone roll moulding round the arch and T-shaped stone modillions in the stepped brick band below the parapet. On the E side the blue and stock bricks are indiscriminately mixed and the piers of the parapet have brick modillions. The tunnel arch comprises 18 square sections set diagonally and overlapping each other in a criss-cross, stepped formation. The 9 sections on the E side have smooth stone imposts. Continuous plain plinth, capped in stone on the E half. On the NE and SW embankments are sloping abutments in blue brick. Each has deep rectangular buttresses linked by deep arched recesses which terminate as niches. Long sloping elevations finished by short brick piers.
Listing NGR: TL1410013442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163612
- 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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