DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE

DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE, GUYZANCE BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153600
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE, GUYZANCE BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153600
Date first listed:: 15-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE, GUYZANCE BRIDGE

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:: DAM ON RIVER COQUET 350 METRES UPSTREAM OF GUYZANCE BRIDGE, GUYZANCE BRIDGE

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Acklington
National Grid Reference:: NU 20296 02883

Details

ACKLINGTON GUYZANCE BRIDGE NU 20 SW 7/22 Dam on River Coquet 350 metres upstream of Guyzance Bridge II

Dam. 1775 by Smeaton for John Archbold of Acton and Edward Cook of Brainshaugh, repaired and cement skirt constructed 1926. Squared stone. Horseshoe dam with 2.4 metres fall and 51.8 metres radius of curvature, with vertical front and face and battered rear; adjacent riverside retaining wall on south has boarded sluice to millrace immediately upstream of dam.

Smeaton, 'Reports' (1776). Vol ii, page 324.

Listing NGR: NU2029602883

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 236692
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Smeaton, , 'Reports' in Reports, (1776), 324

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.