RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER

RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER, BRISCOE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121043
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER, BRISCOE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1121043
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER, BRISCOE LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER BALDER, BRISCOE LANE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hunderthwaite
National Grid Reference:: NY 99571 20146

Details

COTHERSTONE BRISCOE LANE NY 92 SE (North side, off) 10/40 Railway Viaduct over River Balder II Disused railway viaduct over the River Balder. 1868 for the Tees Valley Railway Company. Snecked, rock-faced sandstone; grey brick arches and tunnels; cast-iron-railings. Tall viaduct spanning wide and deep river valley.

9 round arches on 8 battered piers and end abutments. Some of the piers have a double row of throughstones below springing line. Arches in 4 rows of header bond; tunnels in stretcher bond. Low parapet, above stone band, has railings with ball joints. End piers with pyramidal caps.

This viaduct straddles the parishes of Cotherstone and Hunderthwaite.

Listing NGR: NY9957120146

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Legacy System number:: 111202
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.