Bridge Over River Beane At Ngr Tl 3131 1411, Goldings Park

The bridge over the River Beane at Goldings Park was built in 1869 as part of a series constructed by Robert Smith, the owner of Goldings. It features red and yellow brick with flint and stone dressings. The bridge has an elliptical arch made up of three rows of red brick headers alternating with stone voussoirs. It includes stone impost bands and a stone triple keyblock, with the outer arch formed of yellow headers. Flint panels are present in the spandrels, and the battered piers at the abutments have flint panels and red brick quoins, along with a stone band. The cornice is made of chamfered cream header bricks set alternately upright and inverted. There is a red brick corbel band and a stone upper band, with red panelled red brick piers topped with moulded stone caps and low pyramidal tops. The bridge also features stack bonded brick balusters and stone copings.

Historically, Robert Smith inherited the Goldings Estate in 1861, where he demolished the old mansion, diverted and reconstructed the nearby Watton Turnpike, and built this series of bridges in 1869 to carry the road and the drive to Goldings over the 'Goldings Canal' and the mill race of the River Beane.