British Railways Viaduct is a Grade II listed building in the Burnley local planning authority area, England. Viaduct. 2 related planning applications.

British Railways Viaduct

WRENN ID: sharp-courtyard-willow
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Burnley
Country: England
Type: Viaduct
Source: Historic England listing

Description

BURNLEY

SD8332NE ASHFIELD ROAD 906-1/15/5 (North side) 29/09/77 British Railways Viaduct

GV II

Railway viaduct. 1847-8. For the East Lancashire Railway Company. Coursed rock-faced sandstone blocks with freestone dressings and red brick soffits to the arches. Straight line approx 400m long. 15 semicircular arches with rusticated voussoirs, carried on slightly battered piers with plain imposts bands carried round; with a continuous chamfered cornice and low coped parapets (part damaged). A conspicuous and imposing feature of the urban landscape, closing the view north-east from the town centre. Forms a group with Clifton Street railway bridge approx 100m west (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8374132946

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