Chevin Road Bridge (SPC8 22)

A single-span skew overbridge carrying the Chevin Road, built 1836-40 for the North Midland Railway to the designs of George and Robert Stephenson with Frederick Swanwick.

MATERIALS: coursed and squared Coal Measure Sandstone with ashlar Derbyshire Gritstone dressings. The soffit of the arch is of red brick.

DESCRIPTION: the low-mileage (south) face is a mirror image of the high-mileage (north) face. The single, segmental arch conforms to the standard dimensions of the Stephensons’ North Midland overbridges, with a span of 30ft and, originally, a height of 16ft. It has V-channelled rusticated ashlar voussoirs springing from impost bands which continue onto the underside of the bridge. The soffit of the arch is of skew-set red brick. The abutments are built of quarry-faced stone with ashlar quoins and are set on a plinth. Flanking the arch, the wing walls are splayed with a concave rake and terminate in half-hexagonal piers. Due to the skew, the wing wall on the down side (west) of the high-mileage (north) face, is longer than that on the up side (east); the opposite is true of the low-mileage (south) face. Running across the face and piers is a cornice composed of a bold roll moulding and a broad ashlar course with a chamfered upper edge. Above it are four courses of quarry-faced stone forming the parapet. This is surmounted by broad, tooled and square-moulded coping stones, with a slight fall to the outside edge. On their inside faces, the high mileage parapet has four and a half courses and the low mileage parapet has four and a half courses reducing to three at the down side due to the gradient of the roadway.

Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the tarmacadam road surface of the bridge is not of special architectural or historic interest.