Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8297 WATER STREET
698-1/18/428 (West side)
20/06/88 Railway viaduct linking bridge over
Irwell to Liverpool Road Station
(Formerly Listed as:
WATER STREET
(West side)
Railway bridge (etc), attached
viaduct, animal ramp, north of
Liverpool Road)

GV II

Railway viaduct, with attached animal ramp at east end of
south side, including bridge carrying railway line over Water
Street to former Liverpool Road Station. 1830 with bridge
rebuilt 1905. Brick viaduct, iron bridge. Viaduct has arcade
of segmental arches (that at the west end with springing built
into stone abutment of bridge over river); animal ramp
attached at right-angles, also of brick with parapets and
cobbled deck. Iron-girder bridge over street. Retaining wall
to Water Street with monumental banding. Although re-built,
forms integral element of railway structures associated with
Liverpool Road Station, the first passenger railway station in
the world, linking it to the bridge over the river Irwell.

Listing NGR: SJ8291897896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546372

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)