Railway Bridge C.400 Metres East of Former Hagger Leases Station
RAILWAY BRIDGE C.400 METRES EAST OF FORMER HAGGER LEASES STATION, HAGGER LEASES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121831
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge C.400 Metres East of Former Hagger Leases Station
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE C.400 METRES EAST OF FORMER HAGGER LEASES STATION, HAGGER LEASES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121831
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge C.400 Metres East of Former Hagger Leases Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE C.400 METRES EAST OF FORMER HAGGER LEASES STATION, HAGGER LEASES
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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:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE C.400 METRES EAST OF FORMER HAGGER LEASES STATION, HAGGER LEASES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cockfield
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynesack and Softley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11769 25614
Details
COCKFIELD HAGGER LEASES NZ 12 SW NZ 118256 4/8 Railway bridge c.400 metres east of former Hagger Leases station
GV II
Bridge over River Gaunless. Dated 1830 for Stockton and Darlington railway by William Storey; date panel names builder James Wilson of Pontefract. Grit sandstone, coursed and squared with tooled ashlar dressings. Skew plan at angle of 270 with river. Low segmental arch with chamfered voussoirs and wider-arched fall roll-moulded dripstring; this merges with similar string at rail-bed level. Parapets sweep out to round piers and have chamfered coping continuous with top bands of piers, which have low ogee-domed coping. Moulded rectangular inscription panel on north face. One of the earliest surviving skew arches, which were becoming a necessary part of railway engineering.
Source: W.W. Tomlinson History of The North Eastern Railway, 1914; 2nd ed. K. Hoole,Newton Abbott 1967, pp 185-6.
Listing NGR: NZ1176925614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111373
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoole, K, Newton Abbott, (1967), 185-6
Tomlinson, W W, The North Eastern Railway its rise and development, (1914)
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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