SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177227
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177227
Date first listed:: 17-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Atcham
National Grid Reference:: SJ5408011212

Details

SJ 51 SW SJ 5408 1120 3/67

ATCHAM C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, Shrewsbury Branch Canal bridge approximately 20 metres to west of Nos.1 and 2, Canal Cottages

II

Canal bridge. Circa 1797. Plum-coloured brick (English bond) with red brick dressings and grey sandstone coping. Segmental arch with projecting brick keystone, string course, and curved parapet has square end piers with pyramidal caps. Included as one of the last surviving unaltered examples of a bridge in this section of the now disused Shrewsbury arm of the Shropshire Union Canal (begun 1793 and opened in 1797). Nos.1 and 2 Canal cottages are not included in this list. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, David and Charles (1969), Pp.160-3.

Listing NGR: SJ5408011212

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 259293
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the West Midlands, (1969), 160-3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.