List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CLINNICK VIADUCT
List Entry Number: 1136775
Location
CLINNICK VIADUCT
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cornwall
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Braddock
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 30-Apr-1985
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 60520
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SX 16 NW BRADOC
1/18 Clinnick Viaduct
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- II
Railway viaduct and 2 piers of earlier viaduct. 1879 and earlier piers 1859 by I
K Brunel. 6 tapering piers, approximately 30 foot clear span, of snecked rock faced
slatestone incorporating putlog holes for centreings and carrying 6 semi-circular
arches with granite long and short voussoirs, centreing holes and rock faced
slatestone above. Moulded corbel course with bonding stones on moulded stone brackets
supporting an iron parapet railing of uprights, lattice braces and ornamented
adjustment rings. 2- contemporary refuges corbelled out from carved granite ball
bases.
2 metres north the 1859 abutments and 2 tapering piers of smaller roughly squared
stone (one covered in ivy), bone shaped in plan some 50 foot high and approximately 40
foot clear span.
Formerly carrying 2 or 4 raking timber tressles. One of a series of viaducts in
quick succession on Brunel's Plymouth to Truro Cornwall Railway broad gauge line.
Line originally opened in 1859.
References: R J Woodfin, The Cornwall Railway 1972.
L G Booth Works of I K Brunel ed Sir Alfred Pugsley 1976 and C U P 1980.
Listing NGR: SX1519263442
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPugsley, A, The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1976)
Woodfin, R J , The Cornwall Railway, (1972)
Map
National Grid Reference: SX 14599 65178
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