Durley Lane Bridge (MLN111439)

MATERIALS: pennant stone throughout, squared and coursed on the faces and soffit, ashlar dressings for voussoirs, quoins, string course and copings.

DESCRIPTION: depressed, four-centred arch with a span of 16ft (5m) and chamfered voussoirs terminating at the footings in chamfer stops. Low continuous chamfered plinth around the external faces and the carriageway faces. Arch soffit and carriageway faces unaltered throughout. On both faces, archway flanked by stepped buttresses, the offsets with drip-mould and arris. Beyond the buttresses the faces continue unbroken and parallel to the trackbed as straight wing walls, and running across the full width of each is a string course moulded with arris, which merges with the top of the upper offsets of the buttresses. A cast-iron pipe is fixed to the south (Down) face, passing through the buttresses. Continuous parapets terminating in projecting piers. The piers and parapet unified by coping with external face cut sharply to an arris. Post-war, galvanised steel, round section railings mounted above the coping to both faces. Beyond the east (low mileage) piers are C20 parapet extensions in stone and on the south (Down) side also in pre-cast concrete sections. Here also a small post-war red-brick extension and access steps from the roadway up to the tracks, with steel handrail. These C20 modifications are not of special interest.