Pont Haugh Bridge

HER Number

1943

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Pont Haugh Bridge

Place

Lintzford

Map Sheet

NZ15NW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Road Bridge

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Small elegant sandstone bridge of 2 segmental arches with coped stone pillars to parapets and projecting string course at the parapet base and pointed cutwaters. It eas designed by John Green, probably in the 1830s. It formerly carried the A694 over the River Derwent but a concrete bridge was built alongside in 1967 for this purpose.

Easting

414724

Northing

557014

Grid Reference

NZ414724557014

Sources

<< HER 1943 >> I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 18; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Lintzford Conservation Area, pp 15-17