RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE

RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218908
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE

The Ribble Viaduct, Preston. Also known as the North Union Railway Bridge, it carries the West Coast Main Line. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Date:: 1999-10-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218908
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE

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 RIVER RIBBLE, RIVERSIDE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD5352928409

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1249288. This entry was removed from the list on 6th May 2015.

PRESTON

SD5328 941-1/8/239 RIVERSIDE (South West side)

Railway viaduct over River Ribble

II

Railway viaduct carrying North Union Railway over River Ribble; now British Rail viaduct. 1837-8, for North Union Railway Company, resident engineer Charles Vignoles; widened 1879-80 (with subsequent further addition). Rusticated hammer-dressed sandstone ashlar. Approx. 200 metres long, in 5 wide spans. Classical style. Low barge-shaped piers; 5 wide segmental arches with long rusticated voussoirs, a continuous moulded cornice, and plain parapet (now interrupted by stanchions of overhead power lines). The soffits of the arches are also rusticated, and have longitudinal joints on the midline, the width of the viaduct having been doubled in 1879-80 and the addition built in matching style. Northernmost arch spans riverside road entering Miller Park from west, and dies into a battered pier. West side of item partly covered by later iron addition. (Southern half of structure is in Penwortham CP, South Ribble District.)

Listing NGR: SD 53529 28409

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Legacy System number:: 392133
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.