Brady Farm Bridge, HUL4/15

Railway basket-arch overbridge, constructed for the Leeds & Selby Railway in 1832-3 to the designs of Walker & Burges; the contractors were Hamer & Pratt.

MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar with squared and coursed quarry-faced limestone.

PLAN: single-span with provision to accommodate four tracks

One of a sequence of bridges on the Leeds & Selby Railway which share a common design. The wide arch springs from an impost band and has stepped, rusticated and v-jointed ashlar voussoirs. The bridge has straight wing walls and the parapet is set upon a square-moulded ashlar string course. The low parapet walls have distinctive, pronounced horizontal tooling and terminate in similarly detailed oval piers, that are characteristic of the line.

EXCLUSIONS: Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('the Act') it is declared that the C20 metal railings fastened to the stonework of the original parapets are not of special architectural or historic interest.