Tamworth Road Bridge (SPC6 19)

Tamworth Road Bridge is a single-span skew underbridge built in 1837-38 to the design of Charles Blacker Vignoles, for the Midland Counties Railway. The bridge carries the east-west railway line over Tamworth Road, which runs north-south.

The bridge is constructed of coursed and squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Due to the skew angle, the north-east and south-west wing walls are longer and more prominent than the north-west wing wall (the south-east wing wall no longer exists). The bridge features a single segmental arch with rusticated V-channelled, punched voussoirs, which have tooled margins. The underside of the arch is skew set and features V-channelled banded rustication springing from serrated and tooled impost bands. Below these impost bands are four rusticated, V-channelled, punched courses, also with tooled margins. The imposts curve to merge with the voussoirs above. The spandrels of the arch are formed of coursed, punched stones with tooled margins. Above this is a tooled string course with a chamfered upper edge. The parapet is constructed of two courses of picked ashlar with tooled margins, surmounted by tooled coping stones with a chamfered upper edge, and finished with 20th-century steel railings. Below the string course, the abutments project with a concave rake. The abutment walling is V-channelled banded rustication, punched with tooled margins, and curves to terminate in projecting piers that have tooled parapet courses. On the west side of the bridge, the string course continues as the coping of the splayed, quarry-faced wing walls. These wing walls begin at the projecting piers with slight concave rakes, then straighten to end in low end piers.

The low mileage (east) wing walls have been replaced with an additional narrow span, Roosevelt Avenue (SPC6 19A), which is a concrete structure faced in reclaimed stone with a flat soffit. A fragment of the original 1838 wing wall, with a low terminating pier, remains on the north side, constructed of the same materials and detail as the wing walls on the west side.

For the purposes of planning legislation, Roosevelt Avenue (SPC6/19A) and the 20th-century steel railings are considered not to possess special architectural or historic interest.