Sea Lock and Wharf
SEA LOCK AND WHARF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137097
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Lock and Wharf
- Statutory Address:
- SEA LOCK AND WHARF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137097
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sea Lock and Wharf
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEA LOCK AND WHARF
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SEA LOCK AND WHARF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowness
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 24134 62237
Details
NY 26 SW BOWNESS Port Carlisle
2/41 Sea lock and wharf
II
Sea lock and wharf. 1819-1823 for the Carlisle Canal. Red sandstone ashlar with V-joints, large granite blocks on seaward corner. Standard lock design with recesses for 2 pairs of lock gates, now missing, to take vessels of up to 100 tons: gave access from harbours to canal basin. Wall of lock to east continues at right angles to form a wharf. In use until 1853 when the canal was drained and part of the bed of the canal was used for the Port Carlisle Railway.
Listing NGR: NY2413462237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71919
- 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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