Survey Data
Reg No
40401201
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Bridge
In Use As
Bridge
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
244451, 317105
Date Recorded
28/06/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Single-arch road bridge over former railway line, built c.1860. Abutments of squared and snecked rock-faced sandstone having smooth plat band with bevelled upper face at springing point returning on bridge faces as impost block. Soffit of squared stonework. Elliptical arch with rock-faced voussoir stones. Spandrel walls, parapets, and flanking buttresses flush at road face, all of squared snecked rock-faced stonework. Smooth string course below parapet. Coping of square cut stone with shallow pyramidal capstones to piers, copings tooled with horizontal corduroy pattern. Random rubble stone wing walls with Scotch coping. Ramped and curved approach roads to humped deck.
Appraisal
A narrow bridge of robust character spanning the former Cavan Branch of the Great Northern Railway, close to Redhills Station. The bridge has a strong elegantly proportioned arch and distinctive parapet copings. Part of the stone platform wall is visible in a field below to the north-east. It is a fine example of nineteenth century stone railway bridge construction, and though the railway line is now disused, the bridge is a reminder of the scale of the rail network in the past. The bridge makes an important contribution to the traditional character of the surrouding area and to the approach to Redhills village.