Overflow Channel and Culvert on North West Side of Canal Bridge

OVERFLOW CHANNEL AND CULVERT ON NORTH WEST SIDE OF CANAL BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1134498
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Overflow Channel and Culvert on North West Side of Canal Bridge
Statutory Address:
OVERFLOW CHANNEL AND CULVERT ON NORTH WEST SIDE OF CANAL BRIDGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1134498
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Overflow Channel and Culvert on North West Side of Canal Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
OVERFLOW CHANNEL AND CULVERT ON NORTH WEST SIDE OF CANAL BRIDGE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
OVERFLOW CHANNEL AND CULVERT ON NORTH WEST SIDE OF CANAL BRIDGE

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Hebden Royd
National Grid Reference:
SE0329425513

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE ROCHDALE CANAL SE 0225-0325 Upper Foot, Luddenden Foot 6/184 Overflow channel and culvert on north-west side of Canal - Bridge

GV II Overflow channel and culvert. c1798. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed squared stone. Overflow channel, on north side of canal, curves round to east, joining with beck and directing water from this and the canal into a culvert which runs beneath the canal and into the River Calder. The overflow channel has a stone ledge at the canal side, and walls and base of squared stone. It steps down under the segmental-arched culvert entrance. The culvert exit, on the riverside, has a segmental arch with springers, large voussoirs, and large blocks above a band. The culvert itself is composed of large blocks of stone. The overflow channel and part of the culvert are in the parish of Hebden Royd. For history of canal construction see Sowerby Long Bridge (12/177).

Listing NGR: SE0329225513

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Legacy System number:
339311
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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