Railway Bridge 171D (Skew Bridge)
RAILWAY BRIDGE 171D (SKEW BRIDGE), OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389359
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge 171D (Skew Bridge)
- Statutory Address:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE 171D (SKEW BRIDGE), OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389359
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Railway Bridge 171D (Skew Bridge)
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILWAY BRIDGE 171D (SKEW BRIDGE), OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
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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 BRIDGE 171D (SKEW BRIDGE), OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton and Greenleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 81810 41636
Details
891/0/10006 OLD WOLVERTON ROAD
18-JUL-01 Railway bridge 171D (Skew Bridge)
II
Railway underbridge. Built 1837-8 for the London and Birmingham Railway, engineer Robert Stephenson. Constructed of red brick in English bond, extensively repaired in blue engineering brick with red sandstone dressings. The bridge consists of a single segmental arch with stone impost bands, built on a significant skew. The arch is framed on the west face by elegant stone coped retaining wing-walls, which curve forward to terminate in low piers with pyramidal stone caps. The east face has a similar retaining wall on the north, but to the south the bridge abuts against the impressive, rock-faced stone retaining wall of the north end of the embankment for Wolverton's first railway station, now superseded by the former Royal Train Shed (q.v.).
History: The line through Wolverton was built in 1837-8 and opened by the London and Birmingham Railway. In 1846 it became a part of the London and North Western Railway, and in 1923 a part of the LMS.
Reference: Information from Milton Keynes Borough Council.
Listing NGR: SP8181241634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488001
- 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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