Newthorpe Cattle Creep Bridge, HUL3/11

Railway, semi-circular arched accommodation underbridge, constructed for the Leeds & Selby Railway in 1830-4 to the designs of Walker & Burges.

Materials: quarry-faced limestone.

Plan: single-span with provision to accommodate four tracks.

One of a sequence of bridges designed by Walker & Burges for the Leeds & Selby Railway, which share a common design. The arch springs from a quarry-faced impost band and has ashlar voussoirs and a projecting and slightly dropped keystone. Both sides are finished with stone coping with a chamfered edge. There is a pair of later, stone-built pyramidal buttresses to the south face and a pair of curving, stone-built retaining walls, extending to the full height of the bridge, to the north face.

Exclusions: Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('the Act') it is declared that the C20 metal post and rail fences attached to the top of the original coping stones on both sides of the bridge are not of special architectural or historic interest.