RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN

RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS

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

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Official list entry

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER CHESTER BURN, SOUTH BURNS

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

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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Legacy System number:: 109378
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.