Victoria Lock and Ouse Lock
VICTORIA LOCK AND OUSE LOCK, AIRE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083212
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Lock and Ouse Lock
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA LOCK AND OUSE LOCK, AIRE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083212
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Lock and Ouse Lock
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA LOCK AND OUSE LOCK, AIRE STREET
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:
- VICTORIA LOCK AND OUSE LOCK, AIRE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goole
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 74846 23346
Details
GOOLE AIRE STREET SE 7423 (east side, off) 14/50 Victoria Lock and Ouse Lock
GV II
2 locks. Ouse Lock under construction 1835, completed 1838 with later alterations by George Leather. Victoria Lock 1888. Ouse Lock of ashlar, Victoria Lock lined in blue engineering brick with ashlar coping, both with wrought-iron capstans and timber gates. Ouse Lock: approximately 105 x 15 metres. Rectangular with recesses to river end for gates. Rounded coping above ashlar lining to chamber. Timber gates with iron straps. 3 original capstans to east end and 4 to west end. Each capstan is approximately 1 metre in height and is a tapering fluted column with square base. Specifically built for steamships and one of the finest examples of its genre. Victoria Lock: approximately 180 x 15 metres. Rounded ashlar coping above brick lining to chamber. Timber gates with iron straps. Plain columnar capstans. Jackson G, History and Archaeology of Ports, 1983, p 161; Kelly's Directory of West Yorkshire, 1867; Porteous J D, Canal Ports, 1976, p151.
Listing NGR: SE7484623346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, G, History and Archaeology of Ports, (1983), 161
Porteous, J D, Canal Ports, (1976), 151
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1867)
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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