Welwyn Railway Viaduct
WELWYN RAILWAY VIADUCT, BESSEMER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348122
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Welwyn Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- WELWYN RAILWAY VIADUCT, BESSEMER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348122
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Welwyn Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELWYN RAILWAY VIADUCT, BESSEMER 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:
- WELWYN RAILWAY VIADUCT, BESSEMER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Welwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24525 14852
Details
968/1/13 BESSEMER ROAD 08-AUG-03 WELWYN RAILWAY VIADUCT
II* Railway viaduct for the Great Northern Railway. 1848-50 by Sir William Cubitt and Joseph Cubitt, Thomas Brassey contractor. 40 arches in red brick with blue facing brick added in the 1930s. The rectangular plan piers are flared to the base and have a projecting band at cornice level. The Viaduct stretches 519 yards across the Mimram valley with a maximum height 100 feet. Metal gantries added around 1980 as part of the British Rail electrification programme.
HISTORY: The Viaduct was built at a cost of o69,397, and constructed of 13 million bricks. It was opened 7 August 1850.
SOURCES: C. Biddle and O.S. Nock, The Railway Heritage of Britain.
An impressively monumental and elegant railway viaduct of 40 arches for the Great Northern Railway by eminent engineers Sir William and Joseph Cubitt.
Listing NGR: TL2452514852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Biddle, G, Nock, OS, The Railway Heritage of Britain: 150 years of railway architecture and engineering, (1983)
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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