Winston Bridge
WINSTON BRIDGE, B6274
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Winston Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- WINSTON BRIDGE, B6274
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Winston Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINSTON BRIDGE, B6274
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:
- WINSTON BRIDGE, B6274
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 14257 16268
Details
NZ 11 NW WINSTON B6274
5/49 Winston Bridge 14.9.66 II*
Road bridge crossing the River Tees. 1762-3 by Sir Thomas Robinson. Dressed sandstone. Slightly-recessed, single semicircular arch spans 34 metres and has archivolt defined by finely-jointed voussoirs. Arch now stabilised by 8 iron tie rods and plates. Identical north and south faces have massive rectangular-plan piers and buttressed raking sections to east and west. Parapet has slightly-projecting coping carried on square brackets and is cambered over the arch, breaking forward over the piers to form pedestrian refuges. East and west ends of bridge terminate in low square-plan piers with pyramidal caps. West end of bridge is slightly canted on plan.
Winston Bridge straddles the parished of-Winston and Barforth.
Listing NGR: NZ1425716268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111140
- 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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