Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway Over the River Nene
GREAT NORTH ROAD BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH BOUND CARRIAGEWAY OVER THE RIVER NENE, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331276
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway Over the River Nene
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT NORTH ROAD BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH BOUND CARRIAGEWAY OVER THE RIVER NENE, STATION ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14677/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331276
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway Over the River Nene
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT NORTH ROAD BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH BOUND CARRIAGEWAY OVER THE RIVER NENE, STATION 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:
- GREAT NORTH ROAD BRIDGE CARRYING NORTH BOUND CARRIAGEWAY OVER THE RIVER NENE, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibson-cum-Stibbington
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wansford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0763099362
Details
TL 07 99,
45/713
WANSFORD, SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON,
GREAT NORTH ROAD,
Great North Road Bridge carrying north-bound carriageway over The River Nene
II*
Road bridge over River Nene. 1925-28 by Owen Williams and Maxwell Ayrton for Ministry of Transport. Mass concrete constructions. Segmental arch to 109ft wide central span and two flanking flood arches each with 50ft span segmental arches carrying flat road deck. Between the main and flood arches the piers each have two pairs of cutwaters on either side rising from large splays at the bases to the refuges in the parapet; between the cutwaters the piers are pierced by round-headed arches. A
significant feature of the design are the arches that pierce the spandrels, two in each of the main arch spandrels and one for the flood arch spandrels, which have wide vertical expansion joints rising from the crowns of the arches and up through the parapets. There are four similar expansion joints above the extrados of the main arch. The point
where the expansion joint rises from the arch is emphasised by a chamfered recess instead of a keystone. The parapet projects on corbels which rise through it as pyramidal lozenge shapes. Inscriptions formed by shuttering include: the date in Roman numerals over the main arch, and in the main arch spandrels "County of Huntingdon" on the south side and "County of the Soke of Peterborough" on the north side.
This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1274340) was removed from the List on 6 November 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1331276) falls within the parishes of both Wansford and Sibson-cum-Stibbington.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50528
- 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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