Derricombe Viaduct
DERRICOMBE VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140361
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Derricombe Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- DERRICOMBE VIADUCT
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- Date:
- 2006-06-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/15357/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140361
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Derricombe Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- DERRICOMBE VIADUCT
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:
- DERRICOMBE VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Braddock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1560865103
Details
SX 16 NE BRADOC
2/20 Derricombe Viaduct
-
- II
Railway viaduct and 3 piers of earlier viaduct. 1881 and earlier piers 1859 by I
K Brunel. 4 tapering piers, approximately 55 foot clear span of massive rock-faced
slatestone brought to courses with dressed slatcstone voussoirs and soffits. Parapet
of smaller slatestone brought to course with one refuge with single bar over centre
pier.
Half metre to the north the 3 1859 tapering piers of smaller uncoursed roughly
squared stones, the centre 1 I-shaped in plan formed by buttresses with dressed
weatherings in 2 stages.
Formerly carrying 4 raking timber tressles of some 55 foot clear span. One of a
series of viaducts in quick succession on Brunel's Plymouth to Truro Cornwall Railway
broad gauge line. Line originally opened in 1859.
References: R J Woodfin, The Cornwall Railway 1972
L G Booth Works of I K Brunel ed Sir Alfred Pugsley 1976 and C U P 1980.
Listing NGR: SX1560865103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugsley, A, The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1976)
Woodfin, R J, The Cornwall Railway, (1972)
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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