Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537 is a Grade II listed building in the Bromsgrove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 2011. Railway under bridge.
Blackwell Road Railway Under Bridge at NGR SO9884371537
- WRENN ID
- roaming-mortar-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromsgrove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 2011
- Type
- Railway under bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A railway under bridge and wing walls, built c.1838-40 by the engineer Captain William Scarth Morsom, with assistance from Herbert Spencer, for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company.
MATERIALS: Coursed picked-work local sandstone.
DESCRIPTION: A single-span under bridge accommodating the Blackwell Road under the Lickey Incline. It consists of a single horseshoe arch of carefully built stonework, with picked-work voussoirs and keystones, rising from dressed springing stones. Above the arch is a string course, over which is a parapet wall with a projecting coved cornice topped by light steel safety railings. The intrados is composed of picked-work stone up to the springing line whilst, above the springing line, the tunnel portals are of ashlar with the central section being of red brick. There are opposing raking wing walls to the north-west and south-east, those to the north-west with terminal piers.
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