Parkside Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2017. Bridge.
Parkside Bridge
- WRENN ID
- woven-pewter-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2017
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway overbridge, designed to provide access to Birk Hagg Farmhouse, 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. The parapet walls are splayed to both approaches and set upon a moulded string course; they comprise two courses of large rectangular blocks with flat coping stones. The deck carries an unmetalled track.
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