Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Soldierstown Bridge
Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Soldierstown Bridge, Soldierstown Road, Poobles, Aghalee, Craigavon, County Down, **See General Comments**
- Council
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.50061, -6.22735
- Date of survey
- 12 August 2010
- HB reference
- HB19/03/018
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
A single span rubble stone road-over-river humpbacked bridge, carrying the Soldierstown Road over the Lagan Navigation. Unsympathetic repairs have been carried out, including cement pointing and rendering of the soffit. The bridge is at the edge of a scheduled monument, Reach 11, Section 15 of the Lagan Navigation (ANT 067:501& DOW 009:500) and at IHR no. 02680:063:00.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
A single span rubble stone road-over-river humpbacked bridge, carrying the Soldierstown Road over the Lagan Navigation. Unsympathetic repairs have been carried out, including cement pointing and rendering of the soffit. The bridge is at the edge of a scheduled monument, Reach 11, Section 15 of the Lagan Navigation (ANT 067:501& DOW 009:500) and at IHR no. 02680:063:00.
General comments
This building was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the building is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
A single span rubble stone road-over-river humpbacked bridge, carrying the Soldierstown Road over the Lagan Navigation. Unsympathetic repairs have been carried out, including cement pointing and rendering of the soffit. The bridge is at the edge of a scheduled monument, Reach 11, Section 15 of the Lagan Navigation (ANT 067:501& DOW 009:500) and at IHR no. 02680:063:00.
Nearby in the register
- 55 Soldierstown RoadGates/ Screens/ Lodgesunder 1 mi
- 61 Soldierstown RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- BroommountHouseunder 1 mi
- Trinity Church of Ireland ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.