Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Bridge.
Railway Bridge
- WRENN ID
- deep-clay-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 96 NW THURSTON STATION ROAD
1/155 Railway bridge, 50m west - of Thurston Station
GV II
Bridge, carrying the Ipswich to Bury St Edmunds railway line over Station Road. 1846 by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich for the Ipswich, Bury and Norwich Railway. Red and gault brick: much later patching in engineering brick of both red and blue. An elliptical arch with vaulting in skewed (diagonally- set) brickwork. Rusticated block quoins of gault brick rises from road level at all 4 corners to a height of about 2 metres, supporting a heavy dentilled cornice. From this rises the elliptical brick arch with vaulting in skewed brickwork. At the centre of both faces of the arch is a limestone key-block with sunk panel. Plain parapet, rising from deep cornice with modillions of brick below. The embankment is retained by curved and slightly battered retaining walls with stone copings.
Listing NGR: TL9176565021
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