RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sep-1984
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER SOUTHDOWN ROAD, SOUTHDOWN ROAD
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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
- 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.
End of official listing
