Near Fairbank Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2017. Railway overbridge.
Near Fairbank Bridge
- WRENN ID
- blind-cornice-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2017
- Type
- Railway overbridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway overbridge constructed for the Kendal and Windermere Railway in c1847 to the designs of Joseph Locke and constructed by Thomas Brassey.
MATERIALS: quarry-faced local limestone.
PLAN: single-span.
One of a sequence of bridges designed by Joseph Locke for the Kendal and Windermere Railway, which share a common design. The elliptical arch has alternating voussoirs which continue to the undersides, and spring from an impost band. This is flanked by slightly projecting, battered abutments ending in slim piers. There are splayed parapet walls to the N approach and to the W side of the S approach, composed of small limestone blocks with flat coping stones set upon a moulded string course. The deck carries a metalled track.
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