Railway Viaduct And Drinking Fountain Attached is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. Viaduct, fountain.
Railway Viaduct And Drinking Fountain Attached
- WRENN ID
- nether-moulding-vermeil
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Viaduct, fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH ROAD NZ 24 SE 4/285 Railway viaduct and 19.2.70 drinking fountain attached (formerly listed as Durham Viaduct)
GV II*
Railway viaduct and fountain. Viaduct 1857 probably by TE Harrison for North Eastern Railway Co; fountain dated 186 and illegible digit. Rock-faced sandstone viaduct with ashlar dressings; brick soffits. Fountain sandstone with grey granite back plate and pink granite shafts. Viaduct: 100 ft. high; 11 arches. Tapered piers with coped plinths support round arches; continuous drip string. Parapet altered except over end piers, where it is flat-coped.
Gothic-style fountain on south face of pier to west of North Road has shouldered surround enclosing small 2-centred arch at base. Shafts above support gabled canopy with nail-head moulding and containing scroll with illegibel inscription and date. Stepped gabled surround has blind trefoils under each step; crocketed coping.
Listing NGR: NZ2680242570
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