Coventry Canal, Atherstone Top Lock and Basin Below to North West
COVENTRY CANAL, ATHERSTONE TOP LOCK AND BASIN BELOW TO NORTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034782
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal, Atherstone Top Lock and Basin Below to North West
- Statutory Address:
- COVENTRY CANAL, ATHERSTONE TOP LOCK AND BASIN BELOW TO NORTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034782
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coventry Canal, Atherstone Top Lock and Basin Below to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- COVENTRY CANAL, ATHERSTONE TOP LOCK AND BASIN BELOW TO NORTH WEST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COVENTRY CANAL, ATHERSTONE TOP LOCK AND BASIN BELOW TO NORTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Atherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 30568 97539
Details
ATHERSTONE COVENTRY CANAL SP3097 9/34 Atherstone Top Lock and basin below to north west GV II Canal lock and basin. 1780s, with later repairs. English bond brick with coping of large sandstone blocks. End wall to right of lock has large quoins. Some parts of coping replaced with concrete blocks. Basin retaining walls are also in part of large sandstone blocks. Drained at time of survey. Single and double lock gates. The section of the Coventry Canal from Atherstone to Fazeley was completed by 1790. (H.R. Hodgkinson: Notes on the History of Midland Waterways, p83; Transactions of the Birminghan Archaeological Society, 1913, Vol 89)
Listing NGR: SP3056897539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgkinson, H R, Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society in Notes on the History of Midland Waterways, Vol. 89, (1913), 83
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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