Railway Viaduct Over The River Nidd is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1968. A Victorian Engineering structure. 2 related planning applications.
Railway Viaduct Over The River Nidd
- WRENN ID
- pitched-hall-yarrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1968
- Type
- Engineering structure
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH
15.5.68 6/31 Railway Viaduct over the River Nidd (formerly listed as The Railway Viaduct)
GV II*
Viaduct. 1851. Engineer Thomas Grainger for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Gritstone. Approximately 100 metres long and 30 metres high, carrying 2 tracks on 4 arches. 2 central round arches span the river, the 2 flanking arches span the Long Walk (south bank) and Waterside (north bank). Round cut-waters carried up as buttresses with projecting bands and small half-towers at top. Embattled parapet. Work on the viaduct was begun in 1847, but the bridge collapsed in 1848. The replacement cost £9,803 to construct. B Jennings (Ed), A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough, (1970), p 307. H Speight, Nidderdale (1906), p 52.
Listing NGR: SE3473457058
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