Railway Viaduct Extending From Platforms of Greenwich Railway Station to Deptford Creek
RAILWAY VIADUCT EXTENDING FROM PLATFORMS OF GREENWICH RAILWAY STATION TO DEPTFORD CREEK, NORMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253722
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct Extending From Platforms of Greenwich Railway Station to Deptford Creek
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT EXTENDING FROM PLATFORMS OF GREENWICH RAILWAY STATION TO DEPTFORD CREEK, NORMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253722
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1995
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct Extending From Platforms of Greenwich Railway Station to Deptford Creek
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT EXTENDING FROM PLATFORMS OF GREENWICH RAILWAY STATION TO DEPTFORD CREEK, NORMAN ROAD
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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:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT EXTENDING FROM PLATFORMS OF GREENWICH RAILWAY STATION TO DEPTFORD CREEK, NORMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Greenwich (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37744 77316
Details
TQ 3777 NORMAN ROAD
786/25/10038 Railway Viaduct Extending from
Platforms of Greenwich Railway
24.08.1995 Station to Deptford Bridge
II
Railway viaduct for the London and Greenwich Railway. Construction was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1833 and the railway opened to Greenwich in 1838. Grey brick; eighteen arches,
each 20 feet wide from centre to centre and 22 feet high. The 28 ft railbed is enclosed by parapets
roughly four and a half feet high. The viaduct extends westwards to Deptford Creek (cf
RAILWAY VIADUCT - L.B. Lewisham).
This viaduct carried the first passenger railway in London and is one of the first major achievements of railway engineering in Britain.
Listing NGR: TQ3774477316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437019
- 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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