Tunnel Entrance and Lining Set in Bank at North East End of Laughton Pond
TUNNEL ENTRANCE AND LINING SET IN BANK AT NORTH EAST END OF LAUGHTON POND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151898
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tunnel Entrance and Lining Set in Bank at North East End of Laughton Pond
- Statutory Address:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE AND LINING SET IN BANK AT NORTH EAST END OF LAUGHTON POND
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16820/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151898
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tunnel Entrance and Lining Set in Bank at North East End of Laughton Pond
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE AND LINING SET IN BANK AT NORTH EAST END OF LAUGHTON POND
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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.
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:
- TUNNEL ENTRANCE AND LINING SET IN BANK AT NORTH EAST END OF LAUGHTON POND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Maltby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 54363 89678
Details
MALTBY ROCHE ABBEY SK58NW 5K54378969 7/53 Tunnel entrance and lining set in bank at north-east end of Laughton Pond GV II Tunnel entrance and lining. Probably medieval flanked by walls partly c1775. Magnesian limestone ashlar and in irregular blocks. Pointed-arched opening with voussoirs rising from chamfered plinth. Coursed walling above runs out into irregular blocks set as a retaining wall. Tunnel continues several metres into the bank wall below water level of Laughton Pond, its other end is not visible. A channel from the tunnel links to the river flowing through Roche Abbey (Scheduled Ancient Monument). Probably adapted as a landscape feature of Roche Abbey in the scheme carried out between 1774 and 1777 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown for Lord Scarbrough.
Listing NGR: SK5437489678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335928
- 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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