Trenance Viaduct

TRENANCE VIADUCT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144108
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Trenance Viaduct
Statutory Address:
TRENANCE VIADUCT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144108
Date first listed:
12-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Trenance Viaduct
Statutory Address 1:
TRENANCE 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TRENANCE VIADUCT

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Newquay
National Grid Reference:
SW 81850 61244

Details

NEWQUAY NEWQUAY SW 8061-8161 16/138 Trenance Viaduct - II

Railway viaduct. 1874, in place of a timber viaduct. Stone rubble with stone dressings. The viaduct carries the branch line to Newquay station over the Trenance valley at the south eastern approach to the town. Rectangular battered piers with quoins; the inner sides of the piers have a brick relieving arch set below projecting stones, with imposts. Seven round arches. The parapet is corbelled, with plain railings; over alternate piers there is a corbelled rectangular pier in brick. Sources: Thomas, D. St J.: A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain Vol. I The West Country.

Listing NGR: SW8185061244

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Legacy System number:
71142
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Thomas, D, A Regional History of The Railways of Great Britain in The West Country, Vol. 1, ()

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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.

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