Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over The River Tees is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Bridge.
Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over The River Tees
- WRENN ID
- stark-bronze-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 11 SW WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE WHORLTON
7/200 Whorlton Suspension Bridge, over the 19.1.52 River Tees
II*
Suspension road bridge, 1829-31 by John and Benjamin Green. Rock-faced piers, tooled-and-margined stone pylons. Wood-planked roadway; wrought-iron suspension chains and links. Single span of almost 53 metres. Battered rectangular-plan piers rising from massive plinth to a double blocking course. Each pier carries 2 battered corniced pylons, flanking roadway, and supporting blocks through which the double suspension chains pass. Roadway, 10 metres above river, has plain railings, continued to octagonal end piers with corniced caps, except to north-west where railings join toll house.
Rare example of an unaltered early C19 suspension bridge.
Partly in Whorlton parish.
Listing NGR: NZ1066614563
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