Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Purdysburn Bridge
Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Purdysburn Bridge, Purdysburn Village, Ballycowan, BELFAST, County Down, ** See General Comments **
- Council
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.54007, -5.92926
- Date of survey
- 22 April 2011
- HB reference
- HB25/15/002
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
A road-over-river bridge, with replacement parapets and copings. This bridge was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the bridge is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A road-over-river bridge, with replacement parapets and copings. This bridge was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the bridge is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
General comments
This bridge was surveyed in the First Survey but not listed. Only a Partial Survey was taken during the Second Survey as the bridge is not of sufficient interest to warrant a full Second Survey.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Purdysburn VillageHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 10 Purdysburn VillageHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
- 12 and 13 Purdysburn Village and Purdysburn Gospel HallHouseunder 1 mi
- 9 Purdysburn VillageHouse - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.