Mortimer Station Overbridge

Heritage listing

Details Mortimer Bridge is a single span over bridge carrying Station Road over the GWR branch line. It is red brick English bond and has a semi-elliptical arch, a string course to both external elevations and copings of dressed stone. The original sloping retaining walls to the abutments survive trackside at all four corners. The bridge is of a relatively simple form with no evidence of distinct terminal piers. Three parapet ends – both ends of the south-west parapet and the south-east end of the north-west parapet – have been rebuilt in Flemish bond brickwork. Apart from these small areas of rebuilding the brickwork is homogenous and original. Metal oval plaques, indicating that the bridge is 31 miles from Paddington, are affixed to the north-west and south-east ends of the parapets. Such numbers are more usually, on GWR bridges, painted directly on the wall so this may be a Basingstoke branch line distinct form.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.