Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Number 58 Including Side Pond Retaining Wall and Sluice Immediately South
WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, LOCK NUMBER 58 INCLUDING SIDE POND RETAINING WALL AND SLUICE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078238
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Number 58 Including Side Pond Retaining Wall and Sluice Immediately South
- Statutory Address:
- WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, LOCK NUMBER 58 INCLUDING SIDE POND RETAINING WALL AND SLUICE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078238
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lock Number 58 Including Side Pond Retaining Wall and Sluice Immediately South
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, LOCK NUMBER 58 INCLUDING SIDE POND RETAINING WALL AND SLUICE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH
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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:
- WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL, LOCK NUMBER 58 INCLUDING SIDE POND RETAINING WALL AND SLUICE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tutnall and Cobley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 99392 69264
Details
The following buildings shall be added:
SO 96 NE TUTNALL AND COBLEY WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL TARDEBIGGE
1655-/9/10002 Lock No. 58 including side-pond retaining wall and sluice immediately south
GV II
Canal lock, side-pond and sluice. Circa 1812-13 with later C19 and C20 repairs. English bond blue and red brick with some sandstone coping and dressed sandstone wall to side-pond. Narrow lock, about 14 feet deep with splayed wing walls at either end. The north wall of the lower west end has integral flight of steps. Rebuilt wooden gates with mechanical gate-paddle machinery intact. Remains of side-pond on south side with dressed sandstone retaining wall and remains of sluice-gate superstructure. NOTE: The Worcester and Birmingham Canal was authorised in 1791. With Thomas Cartwright as the engineer work begun at the Birmingham end in 1795 and it was completed to Tardebigge in 1807. In 1809 Cartwright was replaced by John Woodhouse who built a lift instead of the proposed flight of docks. Trials for the lifts started in 1810, but it was abandoned in favour of the locks on Rennie's advice. In 1812 construction commenced on the Tardebigge flight and it was completed in 1813. Lock 58 is the top lock of the flight and the deepest (14ft against 7ft for other locks). It is on the site of the lift which was dismantled in 1814 but used in the construction of the Tardebigge flight of locks. SOURCES: Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands, pp 135-146.
Listing NGR: SO9939269264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 135-146
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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