Bridge Number 115 (Folly Bridge) British Rail Midland Region London-rugby Line
BRIDGE NUMBER 115 (FOLLY BRIDGE) BRITISH RAIL MIDLAND REGION LONDON-RUGBY LINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200385
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 115 (Folly Bridge) British Rail Midland Region London-rugby Line
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 115 (FOLLY BRIDGE) BRITISH RAIL MIDLAND REGION LONDON-RUGBY LINE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200385
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 115 (Folly Bridge) British Rail Midland Region London-rugby Line
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 115 (FOLLY BRIDGE) BRITISH RAIL MIDLAND REGION LONDON-RUGBY LINE
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.
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:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 115 (FOLLY BRIDGE) BRITISH RAIL MIDLAND REGION LONDON-RUGBY LINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93785 13969
Details
SP 91 SW MARSWORTH BRITISH RAIL MIDLAND REGION 4/46 LONDON-RUGBY LINE - Bridge No 115 (Folly Bridge)
GV II
Road bridge over railway at Tring Cutting. Circa 1837 by Robert Stephenson for the London and Birmingham Railway Company. Brown brick with stone impost bands, skewbacks, cornice, and parapet copings. Northern parapet rebuilt for safety reasons in red brick with triangular section concrete copings. A long narrow three-arched bridge with working controlled by traffic lights on the B488 road, where it crosses the great Tring Cutting, 2½ miles long and here about 50ft deep. A higher 7-ring segmental arch in middle over trackbed with slender rectangular pierat foot of earth slope on each side, and tall opening through each pier with round arched head and bottom. Slightly lower segmental 7-ring side arches to abutments buried in earth slope. Wide unmoulded stone cornice at roadway level with brick parapet and rectangular terminal piers with weathered stone copings remaining on S side. The cutting was made necessary by Stephenson's decision to have a maximum gradient of 1/330 on the line, and there is a well known lithograph by J C Bourne showing an army of navvies excavating it. The line was opened 9 April 1838. The county boundary withHertfordshire follows the centre-line of the road over the bridge. (Leleux(1976)13-15).
Listing NGR: SP9378513969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350315
- 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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