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: DERRICOMBE VIADUCT
List Entry Number: 1140361
Location
DERRICOMBE 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.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 60521
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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History
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Details
SX 16 NE BRADOC
2/20 Derricombe Viaduct
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- II
Railway viaduct and 3 piers of earlier viaduct. 1881 and earlier piers 1859 by I
K Brunel. 4 tapering piers, approximately 55 foot clear span of massive rock-faced
slatestone brought to courses with dressed slatcstone voussoirs and soffits. Parapet
of smaller slatestone brought to course with one refuge with single bar over centre
pier.
Half metre to the north the 3 1859 tapering piers of smaller uncoursed roughly
squared stones, the centre 1 I-shaped in plan formed by buttresses with dressed
weatherings in 2 stages.
Formerly carrying 4 raking timber tressles of some 55 foot clear span. 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: SX1560865103
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPugsley, A, The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1976)
Woodfin, R J , The Cornwall Railway, (1972)
Map
National Grid Reference: SX1560865103
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