Handley Cross Bridge

Handley Cross Bridge is a Grade II listed structure over Hamsterley Burn, possibly built in 1825 by John Dobson for R.S. Surtees. The bridge is named after Surtees' successful novel from 1843. It carries a drive to a house over a deep cut. The bridge is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and is designed in a Gothic style. It features a high, two-centred arch over the burn, flanked by two smaller arches of similar design. The impost band of the larger arch serves as sill bands on each side. Below the parapet, there is a road-bed-level band, and the parapet itself has a thin flat coping that terminates in low square piers. These piers have pulvinated corner blocks beneath wide bands and roughly-cut high square copings.