LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE, 216

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135126
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE, 216

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Date:: 2002-04-10
Reference:: IOE01/06805/05
Rights:: © Mr Geoffrey R. Handford. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135126
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE, 216

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, OWL BRIDGE, 216

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 22046 36935

Details

SE23NW LS13 LEEDS AND SE2236 PUDSEY LIVERPOOL CANAL, Calverley Bridge

2/95 Owl Bridge (No 216) (formerly listed as 25.1.78 Owl Bridge over Leeds and Liverpool Canal) GV II

Swing-bridge. Late C18 by James Brindley and Richard Whitworth (engineers). Dressed-stone abutments of large blocks. The canal narrows like a bottle-neck, the east side taller with tapering sides and stepped to house pivoting end of bridge. The west side with a quadrant-shaped recess for bridge to swing round into. Modern cast-iron bridge with boarded floor on riveted pivot.

The Act for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was passed in 1770.

Listing NGR: SE2204636935

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Legacy System number:: 341859
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.