Twemlow Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Twemlow Viaduct
- WRENN ID
- nether-obsidian-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Viaduct
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TWEMLOW C.P. SJ 76 NE
4/51 Twemlow Viaduct
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GV II
Railway viaduct 1841 by G W Buck, Engineer to Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company. Red brick, in English Bond, and sandstone. Twenty three semi-circular arches, each of 18 metres span, supported on 3 metres on face by 8 metres deep piers. Projecting pier plinths with weathered vermiculated stone cornice, mainly in brickwork but the plinths of the two piers nearest to the River Dane are wholly of stone with banded rustication. Ogee moulded stone impost bands. 8 bricks deep arches, some wholly in brick-on-edge rings. The plain stone parapet sits on a projecting two course deep brick band;this is supported by a cornice which is built-up from a chamfered stone band and a massive dentil cornice. The viaduct carries the electrified railway from Manchester to Crewe.
Listing NGR: SJ7713567730
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