CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE

CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE, NANNY MAYER'S INCLINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260913
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE
Statutory Address:: CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE, NANNY MAYER'S INCLINE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260913
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE
Statutory Address 1:: CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE, NANNY MAYER'S INCLINE

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:: CULVERT ARCH OVER WASKERLEY SIKE, NANNY MAYER'S INCLINE

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Muggleswick
National Grid Reference:: NZ 05904 46002

Details

NZ 04 NE MUGGLESWICK NANNY MAYER'S INCLINE (South side) 11/127 Culvert arch over Waskerley Sike GV II Culvert arch. Circa 1833 for Stanhope and Tyne Railroad Company, engineer T.E. Harrison and consultant engineer R. Stephenson. Sandstone arch, about 1½ metres high, with voussoirs. Nanny Mayer's Incline, called after the landlady of a nearby inn whose farm was crossed by the incline, was three-quarters of a mile long and had a gradient of one in fourteen; it was self-acting. Source: W.W. Tomlinson, History of the North Eastern Railway, 1914, 2nd ed. K. Hoole, Newton Abbott 1967.

Listing NGR: NZ0590446002

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 439177
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Tomlinson, W W , History of the North Eastern Railway, (1967)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.