Hownes Gill Viaduct
HOWNES GILL VIADUCT, A692
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185970
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hownes Gill Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- HOWNES GILL VIADUCT, A692
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185970
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hownes Gill Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWNES GILL VIADUCT, A692
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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.
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:
- HOWNES GILL VIADUCT, A692
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Healeyfield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09590 49013
Details
HEALEYFIELD A 692 NZ 04 NE (East side, off)
4/45 Hownes Gill Viaduct
II*
Railway viaduct, now part of Waskerley Walk. 1858 by Thomas Bouch for Stockton and Darlington Railway. Yellow brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; cast iron railings. 12 semi-circular arches, 50' diameter and 150' at highest, on tapered piers with 3-stage buttresses to those at full height, the others having corresponding detail. Central tallest piers have wide ashlar coping to 3 sides of buttress plinths; each stage has ashlar coping continuous with bands around piers. Inner pier faces have blind brick arches in each stage, the lowest with inverted bottom arches. Nosed coping supports railing of intersecting arcades with linking rings and low block finials; outer stays; short section renewed at south end. Fifth pier from south has red brick X pattern in north face; corresponding rough X incised on top coping; function unknown. Rectangular piers at parapet ends have band continuous with coping.
Source: W.W. Tomlinson, North Eastern Railway, 2nd ed. K. Hoole, Newton Abbot 1967, p 568.
Listing NGR: NZ0959049013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tomlinson, W W, History of the North Eastern Railway, (1967), 568
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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