Chevin Road Bridge (SPC8 22)

Chevin Road Bridge is a single-span skew overbridge that carries Chevin Road. It was built between 1836 and 1840 for the North Midland Railway, designed by George and Robert Stephenson along with Frederick Swanwick.

The bridge is constructed from coursed and squared Coal Measure Sandstone, with ashlar Derbyshire Gritstone dressings. The underside of the arch is made of red brick. The south face of the bridge mirrors the north face. It features a single, segmental arch that follows the standard dimensions of the Stephensons’ North Midland overbridges, measuring 30 feet in span and originally 16 feet in height. The arch has V-channelled rusticated ashlar voussoirs that spring from impost bands, which extend onto the underside of the bridge. The abutments are made of quarry-faced stone with ashlar quoins and rest on a plinth. The wing walls flanking the arch are splayed with a concave rake and end in half-hexagonal piers. Due to the skew design, the wing wall on the down side (west) of the north face is longer than the up side (east), while the opposite is true for the south face.

A cornice runs across the face and piers, consisting of a bold roll moulding and a broad ashlar course with a chamfered upper edge. Above this cornice, four courses of quarry-faced stone form the parapet, topped with broad, tooled, and square-moulded coping stones that have a slight fall to the outside edge. The inside faces of the high-mileage parapet have four and a half courses, while the low-mileage parapet has four and a half courses that reduce to three on the down side due to the roadway's gradient.

It is noted that the tarmacadam road surface of the bridge is not considered of special architectural or historic interest.