Piercebridge Bridge is a Grade II* listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Road bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Piercebridge Bridge
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-rubblework-ridge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- Road bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 2115 PIERCEBRIDGE B6275 17/151 Piercebridge Bridge 6/6/52 II* Road bridge over River Tees. Early C16, widened on downstream side in 1781 (plaque dated 1673 no longer legible). Dressed and ashlar sandstone. Upstream side: 3 wide arches of 2 stepped orders. Segmental central arch and slightly-pointed flanking arches. Stepped triangular-plan cutwaters, flanking central arch, rise to form pedestrian refuges. Parapet, slightly-raked either side of centre, has band at road level and chamfered coping. Segmental relieving arch supports parapet at north end. Downstream face: similar cutwaters flanking central arch; arches are segmental with roll-moulded arch bands. Splayed north end walls and curving south end walls; cylindrical end piers. This bridge straddles the parishes of Piercebridge and Cliffe, North Yorkshire. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (E. Jervoise, The Ancient Bridges of the North of England, 1973).
Listing NGR: NZ2108015559
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