SHILLAMILL VIADUCT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246222
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
Statutory Address:: SHILLAMILL VIADUCT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246222
Date first listed:: 09-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: SHILLAMILL VIADUCT
Statutory Address 1:: SHILLAMILL VIADUCT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:: SX4654072086

Details

SX47SE 1818/6/10008 09-NOV-00

TAVISTOCK HAMLETS SHILLAMILL VIADUCT

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: SX4654072086

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.