London Road Railway Viaduct
LONDON ROAD RAILWAY VIADUCT, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380757
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- London Road Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address:
- LONDON ROAD RAILWAY VIADUCT, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1380757
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- London Road Railway Viaduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONDON ROAD RAILWAY VIADUCT, PRESTON 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:
- LONDON ROAD RAILWAY VIADUCT, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30891 05557
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3005NE PRESTON ROAD, Preston
577-1/20/690 London Road Railway Viaduct
19/04/74
II*
Railway bridge. 1845-6. By John Rastrick. Red and brown brick
in English bond, with dressings of yellow brick and stone, and
some rebuilding in blue brick.
The structure consists of an elliptical arch fifty feet wide
over Preston Road, and 26 round arches thirty feet wide, and
it extends in a curve for 4 hundred yards from London Road
station in the east almost to New England Road in the
south-west.
All the piers are battered, and pierced by an oblong opening
round-arched at top and bottom; they have an entablature with
stone architrave and cornice and brick frieze, and an
archivolt of yellow brick, dentil cornice of stone and brick,
surmounted by a balustrade of brick panels with balusters
between. The piers immediately flanking Preston Road are
broader than the rest and faced on the south side with a
pilaster-like projection with a recessed panel. The second
pier west of Preston Road was destroyed by bombing in 1943,
and repaired.
This viaduct is the largest engineering work on the London and
Brighton railway branch to Lewes, and is a major viaduct in
south-eastern England.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-).
Listing NGR: TQ3089105557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990)
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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