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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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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Official list entry

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

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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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.