Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street

CANAL AQUEDUCT OVER PALMERSTON STREET, PALMERSTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136400
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street
Statutory Address:
CANAL AQUEDUCT OVER PALMERSTON STREET, PALMERSTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136400
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct Over Palmerston Street
Statutory Address 1:
CANAL AQUEDUCT OVER PALMERSTON STREET, PALMERSTON STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CANAL AQUEDUCT OVER PALMERSTON STREET, PALMERSTON STREET

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bollington
National Grid Reference:
SJ 93389 77905

Details

SJ 97 NW; 2/42 BOLLINGTON, PALMERSTON STREET,

Canal aqueduct over
Palmerston Street.

17/3/1966

GV

II

Canal aqueduct: c1830 by William Crosley for Macclesfield Canal
Company. Hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings.
Horseshoe shaped arches with raised keystones at the ends of a barrel
vault. Rough through stones project at the base of the vault. Short
wing walls curve to be perpendicular to the aqueduct and end in raking
square pilasters. Both have a chamfered projecting band and a plain
parapet with rounded coping above. Wing walls continue as revetment
walls to ground level where terminated with a square pier. Plain
rectangular setting for a plaque (now missing) above each arch.


Listing NGR: SJ9338977905

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
57959
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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