Austhorpe Lane Bridge, Hul4/21

Heritage listing

Details Railway basket arch overbridge, c1830-34 by James Walker of Walker & Burges for Leeds & Selby Railway. MATERIALS: Sandstone ashlar and Bramley Fall gritstone. PLAN: single-span carrying a road over the railway which has provision to accommodate four tracks. One of a sequence of bridges on the Leeds & Selby Railway which share a common design. The bridge is built of squared, coursed and tooled stone blocks. The basket arch of Bramley Fall gritstone has stepped, tooled and inscribed, v-jointed voussoirs springing from a wide, horizontally-tooled impost band. The arch soffit is constructed of large, stone blocks. The outer walls of the abutments and wing walls are formed of long, narrow blocks of tooled, v-jointed sandstone ashlar, now weathered. The inner abutment walls are heavily tooled with v-joints. The parapets are of larger blocks of Bramley Fall gritstone with pronounced horizontal tooling and terminate in characteristic oval piers. They are set on square-cut, tooled and inscribed string courses and have asymmetrically-curved coping with horizontal tooling. EXCLUSIONS: the west face of the bridge has been obscured by a separate concrete and steel footbridge constructed immediately adjacent in 1961.This later bridge is not of special interest and the structure is excluded from the listing.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.