Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill

SLUICE GATE TO NORTH OF HYDE MILL, LOWER HARPENDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119787
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1998
List Entry Name:
Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill
Statutory Address:
SLUICE GATE TO NORTH OF HYDE MILL, LOWER HARPENDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119787
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1998
List Entry Name:
Sluice Gate to North of Hyde Mill
Statutory Address 1:
SLUICE GATE TO NORTH OF HYDE MILL, LOWER HARPENDEN ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SLUICE GATE TO NORTH OF HYDE MILL, LOWER HARPENDEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:
Wheathampstead
National Grid Reference:
TL1322917010

Details

TL11NW
270/2/10025

WHEATHAMPSTEAD
LOWER HARPENDEN ROAD
Sluice gates to North of Hyde Mill

GV
II

Sluice gate and flanking walls. Late C19 with C20 alterations. Timber and cast-iron, with brick walling to water channels. Studded timber sluice gate, horizontally-boarded, set between upright timber posts. The gate has vertical side boards, with 2 toothed iron racks set vertically on them. Iron pinion wheels are attached to either end of a horizontal roller, which, when turned, raises the gate to allow water to flow out of the mill head race channel into a brick lined overflow channel to the west of the sluice gate. Part of the water control system for Hyde Mill (item 44/10027), and, forming a group with the mill and the adjacent range of farm buildings and mill office (item 44/10026).

Listing NGR: TL1322917010

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
469343
Legacy System:
LBS

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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