Calstock Viaduct
CALSTOCK VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138329
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Calstock Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- CALSTOCK VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138329
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Calstock Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALSTOCK VIADUCT
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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:
- CALSTOCK VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bere Ferrers
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4335668641
Details
CALSTOCK
SX 4268-4368
9/64
CALSTOCK
Calstock Viaduct
3.1.68
GV
II*
Railway viaduct over the River Tamar. Completed March 1908; built as part of the Plymouth, Devonport and South West Junction Railway, which had bought the East Cornwall Mineral Railway in 1894. Precast concrete block, manufactured on site in the casting yard on the Devon side of the viaduct. The viaduct has twelve round arches, with rectangular plan tapered piers, in rusticated blocks, with rounded cutwaters. The arches have imposts and voussoirs, plain parapet and coping; stepped corbel between each pair of arches, forming refuges in the parapet.
Built by John Charles Lang, a public works contractor of Liskeard, with engineers W.R. Galbraith and Richard Church, as part of the link line from Bere Alston to the East Cornwall Mineral Railway in Calstock. There are similarities between this viaduct and the viaduct in Poundstock, Cornwall (see Poundstock list). During construction, the blocks and other components were transported across the length of the viaduct by means of Blondins, or aerial ropeways. Until 1934, there was a remarkable vertical hoist, which was used to raise the lower tram wagons between river bank level and the viaduct.
The asset was previously listed twice also at List entry 1105516. That entry was removed from the List on 23 September 2016.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60814
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Tamar Valley Project
D.L.B. Thomas (verbal information)
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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