BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1077129
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL
Statutory Address:: BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1077129
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL
Statutory Address 1:: BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOTTOM LOCK OF THREE, SMETHWICK LOCKS IMMEDIATELY WEST OF BRIDGE STREET BIRMINGHAM CANAL WOVERHAMPTON LEVEL

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

District:: Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 02671 89092

Details

SANDWELL MB BIRMINGHAM CANAL SP 08 NW Wolverhampton Level, Smethwick 9/42 Bottom lock of three, Smethwick Locks immediately 30.3.87 west of Bridge Street

GV II

Canal lock. Probably 1790, when the original Smethwick summit level of 1769 was lowered to that of the Wolverhampton pound. Brick with sandstone kerbstones partly replaced by concrete. Cast-iron sluice gear at upper and lower ends. Single gates. The locks were by-passed when the Smethwick cutting on the Birmingham Level was completed in 1829.

Listing NGR: SP0267189092

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Legacy System number:: 219246
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.