Railway overbridge MVL3/17, Roughtown Road

The railway overbridge, built between 1845 and 1849 by AS Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway, carries Roughtown Road across the railway to the east of Mossley Station. The bridge features a single segmental-arched span set between battered abutments, with the deck sloping down towards the south due to the gradients.

Constructed from buff sandstone, the stonework is regular-coursed and quarry-faced. The arch piers and voussoirs have tooled margins, with the keystone positioned above and below the arch. The impost bands, a sloping string course above the arch, and the twice-weathered parapet copings are all dressed. The abutments curve slightly outward at the corners and end in slender piers topped with shallow, pyramidal caps. The arch soffit is made of narrow-coursed masonry with detailed tooling.

The road surface is tarmac, and in the south-west corner, a short section of parapet copings has been rendered. Additionally, a short cement kerb with modern bollards has been added next to the inner face of the south-west corner.