Description

NU 2417 LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK HALL

16/134 Road bridge and
footbridge 320
metres south-east
of Howick Hall
II

Road bridge and foot bridge. Probably early C19. Tooled ashlar; cast-iron
railings on footbridge. Road bridge over the Howick Burn; higher-level
footbridge carrying a path through the Hall gardens spans north end of roadway.
Road bridge has segmental arch with a similar but smaller flood arch on the
south. Square band below parapet with moulded plinth and coping divided into
17 bays by shallow pilasters. At south end parapets end in taller rectangular
piers with low pyramidal caps; at north end they step up to join footbridge,
which has a chamfered segmental arch and a band below an arched dwarf wall
carrying railing; square-section standards with multi-moulded finials and bars
with moulded circular tops.

Listing NGR: NU2504417272

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26652365

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]