Aberdeen City HER - NJ90NW0637 - PALMERSTON ROAD, ABERDEEN

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Primary ReferenceNJ90NW0637
NamePALMERSTON ROAD, ABERDEEN
NRHE Card No.NJ90NW1159
NRHE Numlink 169234
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 46801
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Railway viaduct built circa 1854 of rough-faced coursed granite. The viaduct runs from Ferryhill to Guild Street Station (NJ90NW0077). There are two painted metal bridges under the viaduct at Palmerston Place and Riverside Drive with channelled rustication to the piers, tiled inside returns with round arched doorways under the bridge. the bridges have latticed parapets on pierced ironwork brackets, flanked by advanced finely finished terminating blocks with dentil mouldings. There are 14 round-arched openings with painted brick arch-rings to the centre between the bridges. Blank walls sweep round to northeast and southeast of the viaduct. The railway originally terminated at Ferryhill (NJ90NW0595) and the Arches represent the beginning of the extension of the railway north towards the centre of Aberdeen.
Last Update15/03/2019
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerACU
Date of Compilation13/09/2017

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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
BRIDGESRAILWAY B100
VIADUCTSRAILWAY A100