Sluice at Outfall of Warping Drain Into the River Trent Immediately North of Millfield House
SLUICE AT OUTFALL OF WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MILLFIELD HOUSE, DERRYTHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076974
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice at Outfall of Warping Drain Into the River Trent Immediately North of Millfield House
- Statutory Address:
- SLUICE AT OUTFALL OF WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MILLFIELD HOUSE, DERRYTHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076974
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice at Outfall of Warping Drain Into the River Trent Immediately North of Millfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLUICE AT OUTFALL OF WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MILLFIELD HOUSE, DERRYTHORPE ROAD
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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:
- SLUICE AT OUTFALL OF WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MILLFIELD HOUSE, DERRYTHORPE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Keadby with Althorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 82932 08653
Details
SE 80 NW KEADBY WITH ALTHORPE DERBYTHORPE ROAD
Derrythorpe
1444/8/127
Sluice and outfall of Warping
Drain into the River Trent,
Immediately North of
Millfield House
10.09.1987 II
Sluice. 1795-1801. Tooled ashlar. Timber sluice gate, iron hoist mechanism. West face has segmental tunnel arch flanked by coped revetment walls. Stepped-back, slightly concave parapet between rectangular piers with rounded coping. Gate and hoist still in place, with lifting bar passing through wheeled ratchet mechanism attached to parapet. Sluice gate obscured by earth infill.
The Warping Drain was part of the drainage works undertaken by Samuel Foster between 1795 and 1801. Sluice was superceded by mechanical pumps in 1930s. MHAD "How the Drains Came", pt 11, Appleby-Frodingham News, vol 15, No 4, 1962, pp 29-30 V Cory, Hatfield and Axholme, an Historical Review, 1986, p 84.
Listing NGR: SE8293208653
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
How the Drains Came, ()
Cory, V, Hatfield and Axholme An Historical Review, (1986), 84
Appleby Frodinghan News in Appleby Frodinghan News, (1962), 29-30
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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