BRIDGE, Main Street, WATERFOOT, Ballymena, CO.ANTRIM

A late 18th century twin-arch masonry road bridge over the Glenariff River at the NW end of Waterfoot. The bridge is of random rubble basalt construction. Angled cutwaters rise to arch spring level on both ends of the pier. Its two equi-sized arches are of segmental profile and have roughly-dressed basalt voussoirs. The inside faces of both parapets are finished with randomly-sized squared basalt rubble. Their original dressed sandstone coping stones largely survive on the upstream parapet but have been replaced with concrete on the downstream side. A small metal pipe is carried across the downstream (NE) face of the bridge, set into concrete on top of the cutwater. There is a second pipe embedded in the road where it runs along the inside face of the downstream parapet. A short distance upstream is a modern metal girder pedestrian footbridge. Between the two bridges on the right (SE) bank is a former sewage discharge pipe. It is set in a concrete emplacement, from which a cast-metal ventilation pipe rises vertically. Setting: The bridge is immediately SE of the T-junction between Main Street and the Coast Road. There is a small public amenity area just upstream on the right bank, and a house and garden immediately downstream on the same bank. The left bank is undeveloped rough open ground.