Bridge

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A single semi-circular arch stone bridge, 1.5 metre span with stilted or vertical sides built in rubble sandstone on a slight curve. The parapet walls are 32 metres long with 7½ metre wide carriageway between. The parapets are only 2 courses high and thus relatively low. There are concrete buttresses on the upstream side. Since the bed of the stream is well below carriage level the abutments are high. The avenue at the northern end of the grounds of Pellipar House gently curves from the gate lodges to the bridge approach and then sweeps in curves towards the house itself.

Historical information

The bridge is shown on the O.S. map of 1832 as is the pair of gate lodges at the avenue entrance at the northern end of Pellipar House grounds. The bridge may have been improved around c1820. John McCluskey, writing in 1821 states “the approach, too, has been tastefully improved”.

References

Primary Source
1. O.S. map 1832 Co Londonderry Sh. 25

Secondary Sources
1. John McCluskey Statistical Reports of Six Derry Parishes 1821; P72, 73
Ed David O’Kane Ballinascreen Historical Society 1983.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A late Georgian bridge of wide proportions bridging a small stream. It is well constructed and carried the main avenue approach to Pellipar House.