GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076445
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL
Statutory Address:: GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL

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Date:: 2000-07-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1076445
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL
Statutory Address 1:: GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL

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:: GRAND UNION CANAL WEST ENTRANCE TO BRAUNSTON TUNNEL

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District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Braunston
National Grid Reference:: SP 55710 65473

Details

BRAUNSTON GRAND UNION CANAL SP56NE 5/80 West Entrance to Braunston Tunnel

- II

Tunnel entrance. Late C18. James Barnes and William Jessop Engineers. Arch and flanking walls rendered brick, the brickwork exposed on right side of the parapet. Rendered string course at the base of the parapet. The tunnel is 2045 yards long and was opened in 1796. The Grand Junction Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1793. In 1929 it was taken over by the Grand Union Canal Company and the name was changed. (A.H. Faulkner: The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.35-36).

Listing NGR: SP5571065473

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Legacy System number:: 360963
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Faulkner, A H , The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 35-36

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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.