Hownes Gill Viaduct

HEALEYFIELD A 692 NZ 04 NE (East side, off)

4/45 Hownes Gill Viaduct

II*

Railway viaduct, now part of Waskerley Walk. 1858 by Thomas Bouch for Stockton and Darlington Railway. Yellow brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; cast iron railings. 12 semi-circular arches, 50' diameter and 150' at highest, on tapered piers with 3-stage buttresses to those at full height, the others having corresponding detail. Central tallest piers have wide ashlar coping to 3 sides of buttress plinths; each stage has ashlar coping continuous with bands around piers. Inner pier faces have blind brick arches in each stage, the lowest with inverted bottom arches. Nosed coping supports railing of intersecting arcades with linking rings and low block finials; outer stays; short section renewed at south end. Fifth pier from south has red brick X pattern in north face; corresponding rough X incised on top coping; function unknown. Rectangular piers at parapet ends have band continuous with coping.

Source: W.W. Tomlinson, North Eastern Railway, 2nd ed. K. Hoole, Newton Abbot 1967, p 568.

Listing NGR: NZ0959049013