Hazlehurst Aqueduct

HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1038095
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Hazlehurst Aqueduct
Statutory Address:
HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1038095
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Hazlehurst Aqueduct
Statutory Address 1:
HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address 2:
HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT, CALDON CANAL (LEEK BRANCH)

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address:
HAZLEHURST AQUEDUCT, CALDON CANAL (LEEK BRANCH)

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Cheddleton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 95428 53626

Details

CHEDDLETON C.P. CALDON CANAL SJ 95 SE 5/40 Hazlehurst Aqueduct 3.1.67

- II

Aqueduct. Dated 1841. Painted brickwork with stone dressings. Single round arch (including towpath) with several bands to extrados, inset spandrel panels finished at centre by inscribed plaque: "HAZLEHURST/AQUEDUCT/1841". Parapet over, on corbels; the sides of the parapet and main face are swept round in a curve and tapered down to piers to take the embankment of the upper (Leek Branch) canal. The Leek Branch of the Caldon Canal was opened circa 1801, John Rennie engineer. The Caldon Canal which it crosses was opened circa 1779. The early surveys of the main canal were done in 1772 by James Brindley, but upon his untimely death the work was taken over by Rennie. The Leek Branch was built to take cheaper coal to Leek, the main canal took limestone from Caldon Low to the Potteries.

Listing NGR: SJ9542853626

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Legacy System number:
274529
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.

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