WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT

WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161087
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT
Statutory Address:: WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1161087
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT
Statutory Address 1:: WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT, LONDON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: WEAVER RAILWAY VIADUCT, LONDON ROAD

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Northwich
National Grid Reference:: SJ 65796 73202

Details

SJ 67 SE NORTHWICH C.P. LONDON ROAD

5/34 Weaver Railway Viaduct

II

Railway viaduct, 1860, of red sandstone, blue brick and iron: 12 round arches west of Weaver Navigation, 1 round arch between Navigation and River Weaver and 35 east of it, including a skew arch over London Road and a wider arch over River Dane. Iron girders with cambered tops span the Navigation and the River Weaver. Rock-faced rusticated stonework to both elevations; tooled intrados to voussoirs; brick lining to arches; plain imposts; recessed stone copings on plain projecting bands; plain pilasters and dentils at imposts to iron spans. Height of viaduct above water level cira 12 metres; length circa 900 metres.

Listing NGR: SJ6579673202

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Legacy System number:: 57629
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.