Tees Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Railway bridge. 1 related planning application.
Tees Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- blind-paling-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Railway bridge
- Address
- Tees Railway Bridge, Northallerton Road, Hurworth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 290 092
- Coordinates
- 54.4774, -1.55267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tees Railway Bridge is a railway viaduct that carries two tracks over the River Tees. It was built between 1838 and 1841 and designed by Henry Welsh for the Great North of England Railway Company. The bridge is constructed of sandstone ashlar and is approximately 100 metres long. Both faces of the bridge are similar, featuring four segmental skew arches supported by slightly-battered piers. These piers have projecting low rounded cutwaters with shallow-domed tops. The faces of the bridge include sunk decorative panels with roll-moulded borders and chamfered impost bands.
Above each pier, the narrower section of the wall breaks forward and has a similar sunk panel with a dropped keystone. The arch tunnels, voussoirs, and spandrels display chamfered rustication. The bridge has a flat-coped horizontal parapet, which is defined by two stepped bands at track level and breaks forward above the piers to create rectangular-plan pedestrian refuges, some of which have been destroyed. The end piers of the parapet feature low pyramidal caps, and there are late 20th-century parapet railings. The embankment-retaining walls are rendered.
Local climate
Tees Railway Bridge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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