Railway Viaduct and Drinking Fountain Attached
RAILWAY VIADUCT AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322851
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct and Drinking Fountain Attached
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322851
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Viaduct and Drinking Fountain Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
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:
- RAILWAY VIADUCT AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26802 42570
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH ROAD NZ 24 SE 4/285 Railway viaduct and 19.2.70 drinking fountain attached (formerly listed as Durham Viaduct)
GV II*
Railway viaduct and fountain. Viaduct 1857 probably by TE Harrison for North Eastern Railway Co; fountain dated 186 and illegible digit. Rock-faced sandstone viaduct with ashlar dressings; brick soffits. Fountain sandstone with grey granite back plate and pink granite shafts. Viaduct: 100 ft. high; 11 arches. Tapered piers with coped plinths support round arches; continuous drip string. Parapet altered except over end piers, where it is flat-coped.
Gothic-style fountain on south face of pier to west of North Road has shouldered surround enclosing small 2-centred arch at base. Shafts above support gabled canopy with nail-head moulding and containing scroll with illegibel inscription and date. Stepped gabled surround has blind trefoils under each step; crocketed coping.
Listing NGR: NZ2680242570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110337
- 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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