LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294551
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL
Statutory Address:: LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294551
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LOCK AT ENTRY TO LEEK BRANCH OF CANAL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Endon and Stanley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 94791 53761

Details

ENDON & STANLEY C.P. CALDON CANAL SJ 95 SW SJ 947 537 (Leek Branch) 4/124 - Lock at entry to Leek Branch of canal

GV II

Lock. Circa 1800 with lock gate circa 1981. Stone coped semi- engineering brick retaining walls narrowed down for length of lock, lock gate has wrought iron top rail. The lock lies to the south of the lock keeper's cottage (q.v.) and to north of the feeder basin (q.v.). The Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal was opened circa 1801 to take cheaper coal to Leek, John Rennie, engineer.

Listing NGR: SJ9479153761

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Legacy System number:: 274615
Legacy System:: LBS

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