Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees
WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees
- Statutory Address:
- WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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.
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:
- WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wycliffe with Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 10666 14563
Details
NZ 11 SW WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE WHORLTON
7/200 Whorlton Suspension Bridge, over the 19.1.52 River Tees
II*
Suspension road bridge, 1829-31 by John and Benjamin Green. Rock-faced piers, tooled-and-margined stone pylons. Wood-planked roadway; wrought-iron suspension chains and links. Single span of almost 53 metres. Battered rectangular-plan piers rising from massive plinth to a double blocking course. Each pier carries 2 battered corniced pylons, flanking roadway, and supporting blocks through which the double suspension chains pass. Roadway, 10 metres above river, has plain railings, continued to octagonal end piers with corniced caps, except to north-west where railings join toll house.
Rare example of an unaltered early C19 suspension bridge.
Partly in Whorlton parish.
Listing NGR: NZ1066614563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111787
- 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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