Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees
WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1322762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- Statutory Address:
- WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1322762
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1952
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHORLTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE, OVER THE RIVER TEES
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
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- Legacy System number:
- 111787
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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