TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) at SJ 81602 56211
LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) AT SJ 81602 56211, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) at SJ 81602 56211
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) AT SJ 81602 56211, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) at SJ 81602 56211
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) AT SJ 81602 56211, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
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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:
- LOCK NUMBER 49 (HALL’S LOCK) AT SJ 81602 56211, TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Lawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 81599 56208
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/2013
SJ 85 NW
1923- /7/10003
CHURCH LAWTON
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL
Canal Lock number 49 (Hall's Lock) at SJ 8160 5622
(Formerly listed as Lock No. 49 at SJ 8160 5622)
GV
II
Pair of narrow locks. Towpath side lock by James Brindley/Hugh Henshall circa 1772-75, with off-side lock added probably by Thomas Telford early 1830's; both with replacement of materials and movable parts. Towpath side lock has concrete facing to most of chamber and coping and off-side lock has brick chamber with stone coping and quoins. Central island cutwater. Late C20 gates: single wooden top gate and double wooden bottom gates to off-side lock. Wooden plank footbridge across each tail. Both locks have steps down to lower level to off-side (those to towpath side are of concrete and those to off-side are of engineering brick). Off-side weir with stone walls. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. Listed for group value with adjacent bridge.
Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)
Listing NGR: SJ8159956208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)
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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