Polam Lane Bridge
POLAM LANE BRIDGE, POLAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391730
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Polam Lane Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- POLAM LANE BRIDGE, POLAM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391730
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Polam Lane Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLAM LANE BRIDGE, POLAM LANE
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:
- POLAM LANE BRIDGE, POLAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28829 13750
Details
907/0/10024 POLAM LANE 16-AUG-06 Polam Lane Bridge
II Footbridge, spanning the River Skerne c. 1891 of steel, iron and sandstone. North and south coursed rusticated sandstone abutments with impost blocks each surmounted by two pillars extending above the deck, topped with moulded capstones. The bridge abutments support a steel girder bearing the bridge deck, supplemented by a pair of cast iron Corinthian columns placed in the centre of the riverbed. The bridge deck has an unusual style of ornate cast iron handrails with curvilinear supporting iron side brackets. History: Polam Lane Bridge was built to give access across the River Skerne between the end of Polam Lane to the north of the river and the newly built Victoria Embankment to the south. It also gave access to one of the main entrances to South Park, originally laid out in 1851 when it was known as Bellasses Park. The bridge design was put out to tender in March 1891 and it was constructed shortly afterwards. It appears on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1899.
Bridges forming an essential part of a registered landscape are considered to meet the criteria for listing in a national context, even if they are not architecturally elaborate. This iron footbridge of c 1891 has decorative handrails of an unusual design and provides access to the northern corner of South Park across the River Skerne. Most importantly, it forms an essential element of the historic and registered South Park and it therefore fulfils the national criteria for listing.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 496054
- 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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