Wood Lane Bridge

Bridge over the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway line, mid-1840s, by Thomas Grainger. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings.

Wood Lane Bridge is located approximately half a mile to the north-east of Dewsbury Station and carries Wood Lane (now a footpath) over the Leeds, Dewsbury & Manchester Railway line. Due to the lie of the land the bridge slopes downwards from east to west. The bridge is similarly detailed on both sides and is constructed of coursed local rock-faced sandstone with a segmental arched span incorporating rusticated voussoirs that spring from ashlar quoined jambs and an ashlar impost band. Above the arch is a projecting ashlar stringcourse in the form of a carriageway band and a parapet of larger coursed rock-faced sandstone blocks with large rounded ashlar coping stones; the coping stone at the far eastern end of the north parapet has been replaced by a roughcast concrete block.

The attached approach walls, including a substantial red-brick and sandstone wall added in 1880 on the west side to divert Wood Lane as part of the construction of a neighbouring railway line (now removed) are not of special interest and are excluded from the listing.