SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246222
- Date first listed:
- 09-Nov-2000
- Statutory Address:
- SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gulworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 46548 72099
Details
TAVISTOCK HAMLETS
SX47SE SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
1818/6/10008
09-NOV-00
II
Railway viaduct. Built 1889 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, engineers Galbraith and Church, with J.W. Szlumper for the London and South Western Railway. It is constructed of squared rock-faced granite with ashlar quoins, dressings and arch-rings. It is a double-track viaduct with twelve 50ft arches built almost in a straight line and is about 700 ft long with its greatest height at about 100ft. The piers taper from a plinth to a cornice and carry semi-circular arches. The parapet has a band and a canopy and there is a slightly projecting refuge above every second pier. The viaduct carries a tablet R+P 1889 [builders Relf and Pethick].
HISTORY: This viaduct was built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, an associate company of the London and South Western Railway, as part of their extension from Exeter to Plymouth which gave LSWR a wholly controlled line between London and Plymouth. The section from Lydford to Devonport was the last to be completed and was opened in 1890. The line was closed and lifted west and south of Lydford in 1968 and remains open only from Bere Alston to Plymouth.
SOURCE: Williams, R.A., The London and South Western Railway, Vol.II, David and Charles, 1973, pp 256-8.
Listing NGR: SX4654872099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, R A, The London and South Western Railway, (1973), 256-8
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
