Alvingham Lock and Inverted Syphon TF 365909
ALVINGHAM LOCK AND INVERTED SYPHON TF 365909, NORTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063080
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Alvingham Lock and Inverted Syphon TF 365909
- Statutory Address:
- ALVINGHAM LOCK AND INVERTED SYPHON TF 365909, NORTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063080
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Alvingham Lock and Inverted Syphon TF 365909
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALVINGHAM LOCK AND INVERTED SYPHON TF 365909, NORTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
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:
- ALVINGHAM LOCK AND INVERTED SYPHON TF 365909, NORTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alvingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF3652890893
Details
ALVINGHAM NORTH COCKERINGTON ROAD
TF 39 SE (north-east side)
4/8
Alvingham Lock and
inverted syphon (formerly
15.4.85 listed under Civil Parish
of Keddington) TF 365909
- II
Lock. 1767 by John Grundy. Red brick, limestone ashlar dressings, wood and
cast iron. Lock chamber walls of 4 concave brick sections on either side with
timber posts, now partially intact and exposed, in between. Posts partly
hidden by large ashlar blocks. Tops ashlar coped. Timber beams survive where
lock gates originally hung with some of iron fittings still in place. End
sections of embankment slope downwards to curved ends, and southern sections
include a large basin for waiting barges to moor in, though much of this basin
is now silted up, and it too ends in curved embankments. 2 blocked, semi-
circular brick drain openings in west side of lock chamber. The river Lud,
running north to south, is culverted and passes under the lock by means of an
inverted syphon. Navigation abandoned in 1924.
Listing NGR: TF3652890893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195450
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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