Sluice and Road Bridge at Outfall of Snow Sewer/warping Drain Into the River Trent
SLUICE AND ROAD BRIDGE AT OUTFALL OF SNOW SEWER/WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083227
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice and Road Bridge at Outfall of Snow Sewer/warping Drain Into the River Trent
- Statutory Address:
- SLUICE AND ROAD BRIDGE AT OUTFALL OF SNOW SEWER/WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083227
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice and Road Bridge at Outfall of Snow Sewer/warping Drain Into the River Trent
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLUICE AND ROAD BRIDGE AT OUTFALL OF SNOW SEWER/WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT, SOUTH STREET
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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 AND ROAD BRIDGE AT OUTFALL OF SNOW SEWER/WARPING DRAIN INTO THE RIVER TRENT, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Owston Ferry
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 81374 99448
Details
SK 89 NW OWSTON FERRY SOUTH STREET
15/144 Sluice and road bridge at outfall of Snow Sewer/Warping Drain into the River Trent
- II
Sluice and road bridge. Probably 1760s-70s with later repairs. Ashlar. East and west sides have three segmental-headed arches with central pair of flat-topped cutwaters and flanking revetment walls splayed-out to each side, coped parapet above between rectangular piers. The east side has vertical slots in the cutwaters and revetment walls for former sluice gates. The west side has the remains of the hinged timber sluice gates to the central channel; side channels now filled with earth. The Snow Sewer was cut, or re-cut, by Vermuyden in the 1620s-30s. The flood gates were destroyed by rebellious local inhabitants in 1642 and the sluice subsequently repaired. In 1764 John Smeaton reported on the Axholme drainage and following his recommendations the sluice was rebuilt with a lower sill. In the C19 the sluice and drain were also used for warping the adjacent land, a process whereby silt was deposited by controlled flooding. The sluice was largely superceded by mechanical pumps in the C20. G Dunston, The Rivers of Axholme, (no date), p 123; V Cory, Hatfield and Axholme, an Historical Review, 1986, pp 83-6, p 99.
Listing NGR: SK8137499448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165208
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunston, G, The Rivers of Axholme, (), 123
Cory, V, Hatfield and Axholme An Historical Review, (1986), 83-86, 99
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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