Railway Viaduct Over Chester Burn

RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1159006
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1987
Statutory Address:
RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1159006
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1987
Statutory Address 1:
RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS

Location

Statutory Address:
RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS

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District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 27118 51635

Details

CHESTER-LE-STREET SOUTH BURNS NZ 25 SE (West end, off) 4/32 Railway Viaduct over Chester Burn II

Railway viaduct carrying 2 tracks over Chester Burn. 1868 for the North- Eastern Railway Company. Light-red engineering brick in English bond; stone plinths and parapet band.

Tall, c.230-metre long viaduct. 11 elliptical arches, in 7 rows of header bond, on thin slightly-battered piers with tall rock-faced plinths; arches partly refaced on west. Moulded band at track level. Low parapet with paired end piers.

Late C20 railings and cantilevered refuges are not of special interest. An important townscape feature.

Listing NGR: NZ2711851635

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