Railway Bridge and Attached Accommodation Bridge Over River Kennet at SU 7306 7381
RAILWAY BRIDGE AND ATTACHED ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE OVER RIVER KENNET AT SU 7306 7381
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113621
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge and Attached Accommodation Bridge Over River Kennet at SU 7306 7381
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE AND ATTACHED ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE OVER RIVER KENNET AT SU 7306 7381
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113621
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge and Attached Accommodation Bridge Over River Kennet at SU 7306 7381
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE AND ATTACHED ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE OVER RIVER KENNET AT SU 7306 7381
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 AND ATTACHED ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE OVER RIVER KENNET AT SU 7306 7381
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Reading (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 73060 73810
Details
SU 7373
8/566
READING
Railway bridge and attached accommodation bridge over River Kennet at SU 7306 7381
GV
II
Railway bridge and attached accommodation bridge. Railway bridge 1839-1840 by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel for The Great Western Railway, widened[1892 and probably
accommodation bridge attached at same date. Railway bridge of red brick widened
in engineering brick with ashlar dressings; accommodation bridge of steel and
timber. Railway bridge: built on skew having central elliptical arch flanked by
pilasters, the western one on cutwater, with two round flood arches to either side
and broad battered buttresses beyond. Band below flat-coped parapet. North side,
the addition, similar but partially masked by the accommodation bridge which has
steel-framed substructure, with girders cantilevered from face of railway bridge;
wooden deck; and parapet of vertical boards supported by panelled frame with
diagonally-crossed braces, this being of timber to the long, sloping ramps (which
are panelled to river) and of steel to the peaked archway. The Twyford to Reading
section of the Great Western Railway was opened 30.3.1840.
Listing NGR: SU7306073810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39279
- 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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