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A pair of semi-detached houses, designed by Parker and Unwin, in red brick with a tile roof. There are two storeys and four bays, the middle two bays rising to form a gable. In the outer bays are square bay windows and doorways under a catslide roof, and above are dormers with hipped roofs. The other windows are casements under segmental brick ...
A house in red brick on a magnesian limestone plinth with brick capping, rendered at the rear, with a moulded floor band, and a pantile roof with stone coping. There are two storeys and two bays. In the front is a blocked entrance with an elliptical head, and the doorway is in the right return. The windows are 20th-century replacements. [21] II
The viaduct comprises 22 semi-circular arches with spans of 19.2 metres (63 ft) flanked by a pair of abutment arches of 5.5-metre (18 ft) span. The arch rings are 900 millimetres (35 in) thick. The arches and spandrels are built of red brick set in lime mortar with ashlar spring courses. The deck parapets are 2.2 metres (7 ft 3 in) high.
The viaduct is 96 feet (29 m) high and is carried on 37 semi-circular arches, each of 30 feet (9.1 m), surmounted by balustrades, spanning a total length of 1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a jack arch with a semi-circular soffit , which had the benefit of reducing the number of bricks required. [ 6 ]
Norman Shaw Buildings, Victoria Embankment, Westminster.North Building, 1887 (right); South Building, 1902 (left) British Queen Anne Revival architecture, also known as Domestic Revival, [1] is a style of building using red brick, white woodwork, and an eclectic mixture of decorative features, that became popular in the 1870s, both for houses and for larger buildings such as offices, hotels ...
At the western extent there is a ramp from the beach level up to the promenade. The ramp has commercial units within its brick arches. The last cast-iron arch to the western side is also brick-faced". [1] Later in the twentieth century a former public toilet was added, half in-filling the preceding four arches. [1]
Maidenhead Railway Bridge, also known as Maidenhead Viaduct and The Sounding Arch, carries the Great Western Main Line (GWML) over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a single structure of two tall, wide red-brick arches buttressed by two over-land smaller arches.
The bridge, designed by Edward Walters, is in stone, and consists of a single Tudor arch flanked by square piers that rise to become semi-hexagonal. The parapets curve outward and terminate in square piers at one end and in octagonal gate piers at the other. The walls have a moulded band, moulded coping, and corbelled semi-hexagonal projections ...