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The following building shall be added:-

SIBSON CUM STIBBINGTON
GREAT NORTH ROAD
TL 07 99
9/913 Great North Road Bridge
carrying north-bound
carriageway over The
River Nene
II*
Road bridge over River Nene. 1925-28 by Owen Williams and Maxwell
Ayrton for Ministry of Transport. Mass concrete construction.
Segmental arch to 109ft wide central span and 2 flanking flood arches
each with 50ft span segmental arches carrying flat road deck. Between
the main and flood arches the piers each have 2 pairs of cutwaters on
either side rising from large splays at the bases to the refuges in the
parapet; between the cutwaters the piers are pierced by round-headed
arches. A significant feature of the design are the arches that pierce
the spandrels, 2 in each of the main arch spandrels and one for the
flood arch spandrels, which have wide vertical expansion joints rising
from the crowns of the arches and up through the parapets. There are 4
similar expansion joints above the extrados of the main arch. The point
where the expansion joint rises from the arch is emphasised by a
chamfered recess instead of a keystone. The parapet projects on corbels
which rise through it as pyramidal lozenge shapes. Inscriptions formed
by shuttering include:- the date in Roman numerals over the main arch
and in the main arch spandrels "County of Huntingdon" on the south side
and "County of the Loke of Peterborough" on the north side.

Listing NGR: TL0763099360