Gilderdale Viaduct
GILDERDALE VIADUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144983
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gilderdale Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- GILDERDALE VIADUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1144983
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gilderdale Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- GILDERDALE 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:
- GILDERDALE VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alston Moor
- National Grid Reference:
- NY7034148647
Details
The entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 October 2018.
NY 74 NW
155/3/7
14.05.1984
ALSTON MOOR
Gilderdale Viaduct
GV
II
Railway viaduct, now disused. 1852. Probably by Sir George Barclay-Bruce. Squared stone with tooled and margined ashlar dressings. Central elliptical arch flanked by lower semicircular arches; chamfered arch rings with keystones and impost blocks, intrados of arches with channeled rustication. Flanking pilasters with rusticated quoins. Projecting half-round band to base of parapet, which terminates in low rectangular piers with pyramidal caps. For the Alston branch of the Newcastle-Carlise railway.
This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1155323) was removed from the List on 16 October 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1144983) falls under the Local Authorities of both Eden and Northumberland.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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