Tees Bridge
TEES BRIDGE, A167
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131366
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tees Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- TEES BRIDGE, A167
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131366
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tees Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEES BRIDGE, A167
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:
- TEES BRIDGE, A167
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croft-on-Tees
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2907709183
Details
NZ 20 NE
8/22
CROFT-ON-TEES
A 167
(east side, off)
Tees Bridge
II
Railway viaduct carrying 2 tracks over River Tees. 1838-41, designed by
Henry Welsh for the Great North of England Railway Company. Sandstone
ashlar. About 100 metres long. Both faces similar. 4 segmental skew
arches on slightly battered piers which have projecting low rounded
cutwaters with shallow-domed tops. Sunk decorative panels with roll-moulded
borders on faces; chamfered impost bands. Narrower section of wall breaks
forward above each pier and has a similar sunk panel with dropped keystone.
Arch tunnels, voussoirs and spandrels have chamfered rustication. Flat-
coped horizontal parapet, defined by 2 stepped bands at track level, breaks
forward above piers to form rectangular-plan pedestrian refuges, some now
destroyed. Parapet end piers have low pyramidal caps. Late C20 parapet
railings. Rendered embankment-retaining walls. Partly in the Civil Parish
of Hurworth. K Hoole, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britian,
Vol 4, The North East, 1965.
Listing NGR: NZ2907709183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322661
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoole, K, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The North East, Vol. 4, (1965)
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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