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Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway over the River Nene

A Grade II* Listed Building in Wansford, City of Peterborough

This entry has been removed from the Heritage list by Historic England

The listing was removed on 6 November 2018.

This building has been assessed for de-listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended. The building has been removed from The National Heritage List for England as it no longer meets the criteria for listing.

The information below has been retained for archive purposes. It does not necessarily reflect the current state of the building.

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5814 / 52°34'53"N

Longitude: -0.413 / 0°24'46"W

OS Eastings: 507630

OS Northings: 299362

OS Grid: TL076993

Mapcode National: GBR FWT.4DW

Mapcode Global: WHGMB.MCKV

Plus Code: 9C4XHHJP+HR

Entry Name: Great North Road Bridge Carrying North Bound Carriageway over the River Nene

Listing Date: 14 October 1991

Delisted Date: 6 November 2018

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1331276

English Heritage Legacy ID: 50528

ID on this website: 101331276

Location: Wansford, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE8

County: City of Peterborough

District: Huntingdonshire

Civil Parish: Wansford

Built-Up Area: Wansford

Traditional County: Huntingdonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Thornhaugh and Wansford

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

Description


TL 07 99,
45/713

WANSFORD, SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON,
GREAT NORTH ROAD,
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 constructions. Segmental arch to 109ft wide central span and two flanking flood arches each with 50ft span segmental arches carrying flat road deck. Between the main and flood arches the piers each have two 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, two 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 four 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 Soke of Peterborough" on the north side.

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1274340) was removed from the List on 6 November 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1331276) falls within the parishes of both Wansford and Sibson-cum-Stibbington.

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