Old North Road Bridge, HUL4/13

Railway basket arched underbridge designed to accommodate the Great North Road, constructed for the Leeds & Selby Railway between 1830-4 to the designs of Walker & Burges.

MATERIALS: local sandstone.

PLAN: single-span with provision for four tracks.

One of a sequence of bridges designed by Walker & Burges for the Leeds & Selby Railway, which share a common design. The arch springs from a tooled ashlar impost band and has stepped, rusticated and v-jointed ashlar voussoirs which continue to the underside. The bridge is flanked by raked and angled wing walls of squared and coursed quarry-faced masonry with ashlar coping. The parapet is set upon an ashlar string course and has distinctive, pronounced horizontal tooling terminating in similarly detailed curved piers characteristic of this line.

EXCLUSIONS: Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the modern metal railing attached to one of the original parapets and the raised platform structure are not of special architectural or historic interest.