School Aycliffe Lane overbridge

Railway overbridge by Thomas Storey for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1832, widened on its northern side in the 1980s.

MATERIALS: rock-faced ashlar sandstone.

DESCRIPTION: the bridge is widened on its northern side. The original southern elevation has a single basket arch of voussoirs with a span to accommodate a dual-track railway line. There is a roll-moulded string course at impost level which then forms an arch ring encompassing the voussoirs, this string course merging with a second, more pronounced string course that marks the base of the parapet. The arch is flanked by plain pilasters and the parapets are finished with a triangular coping, the northern parapet being rebuilt. The northern half of the bridge deck is supported on horizontal bridging beams* that partly obscures the bridge’s original northern elevation.

• Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that these aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest, however any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require LBC and this is a matter for the LPA to determine.