Whorlton Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1952. A Georgian Bridge.
Whorlton Bridge
- WRENN ID
- standing-lancet-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 11 SW WHORLTON WHORLTON
8/81 Whorlton Bridge 7.1.52 II *
Suspension road bridge crossing the River Tees. 1829-31 by John and Benjamin Green. Rock-faced sandstone piers; tooled-and-margined pylons; wood-planked roadway deck; wrought-iron suspension chains and links. Single span of almost 53 metres. Rectangular-plan piers and pylons at north and south ends of-bridge have slightly-battered profile. Piers rise from massive plinth to a double blocking course. Upon these piers two piers rise to either side of roadway and terminate, above a cornice, with a block through which the double suspension chains pass. Roadway, 10 metres above river, has simple railings. North-east and south-east ends of bridge terminated by squat octagonal-plan piers with corniced caps.
Whorlton Bridge straddles the parishes of Whorlton and Wycliffe with Thorpe.
Listing NGR: NZ1066714571
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