RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618

RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618, ASHFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261449
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618
Statutory Address:: RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618, ASHFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261449
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618
Statutory Address 1:: RAILWAY BRIDGE NO 618, ASHFORD ROAD

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 BRIDGE NO 618, ASHFORD ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Boxley
National Grid Reference:: TQ 77267 55577

Details

TQ 75 NE BOXLEY ASHFORD ROAD 5/222 Railway Bridge No 618 II Railway viaduct and screen wall. c1880 viaduct, part of Maidstone and Ashford Rail- way with screen wall built specially to prevent sparks and soot from the railway engines drifting on to the hand made paper at Turkey Mill being dried in the nearby louvred drying lofts. Built of red brick in English bond. Series of round-headed arches with screen wall above having large recessed panels with pierced circular holes on north forming a decorative feature, and plain walls on the south where it abutted Turkey Mill. Of social historical interest for its attempt to placate local landowners, in this case the Earl of Romney and James Whatman, MP for Maidstone and owner of the Turkey Mill (See Maidstone and Ashford Railway Act 1880).

Listing NGR: TQ7738059871

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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.