TRANSPORTER BRIDGE

TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139267
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139267
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH
Statutory Address 2:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, PORT CLARENCE ROAD, STOCKTON ON TEES

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, FERRY ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH
Statutory Address:: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE, PORT CLARENCE ROAD, STOCKTON ON TEES

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

District:: Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
District:: Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Billingham
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: NZ 49991 21297

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1139845. This entry was removed from the List on 12 July 2017.

NZ 42 SE NZ 52 SW 7/427 8/427

BILLINGHAM PORT CLARENCE ROAD (off) (South side)

Transporter Bridge

II*

Transporter Bridge over River Tees, 1911 by G.C. Imbault (Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co.Ltd.) engineer; constructed by Sir William Arrol and Company Limited (Glasgow). Opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught. Plated and riveted steel. 2 pairs of tapering towers on steel and concrete caissons, support main cantilevered trusses, of which lower chord carries trolley way. Catwalk along trolley way 49m above water, and 260m. in length, with 174m. span over river. Clusters of woven steel wire tension ropes connect outward tips of trusses vertically down to concrete anchorage blocks set into the ground. Carriage suspended on steel wire ropes, from trolley hauled by 2 ropes connected to electrically powered winch, in housing on south bank of river. Carriage damaged by enemy action in 1940

Listing NGR: NZ 49991 21297

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Legacy System number:: 59200
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.