SLUICE, CHANNEL AND SLUICE A SWING-BRIDGES AT VALE ROYAL LOCKS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160896
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- Statutory Address:
- SLUICE, CHANNEL AND SLUICE A SWING-BRIDGES AT VALE ROYAL LOCKS, WEAVER NAVIGATION
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- SLUICE, CHANNEL AND SLUICE A SWING-BRIDGES AT VALE ROYAL LOCKS, WEAVER NAVIGATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitegate and Marton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 64004 70332
Details
WINSFORD FORMER U.D. WEAVER NAVIGATION
SJ 67 SW
6402 7033
1/43 Sluice, channel and
sluice a swing-bridges
at Vale Royal Locks.
-
GV II
Sluice. Built c1860 as a lock and converted to a sluice channel
c1890. Red sandstone ashlar walls to channel with wooden sluice gate
suspended from bridge of rusticated red sandstone with limestone
ashlar dressings. Wood and iron swing-bridge. Rectangular channel
with sluice gate and bridge at south end and swing bridge to south of
centre. Red sandstone walls to channel and rusticated sandstone piers
to bridge which has semi-circular piers to either side of front and
rear and flights of steps to either side. Central cast iron
round-arched support to bridge with open circles to spandrels and a
wooden walkway and tubular iron handrail. The piers have limestone
springers to the iron support and ashlar dressings to lower level and
top of bridge parapet. The sluice channel was the small lock until
the alterations of c1890 when it was converted and the sluice and
sluice bridge were built.
Listing NGR: SJ6400470332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57406
- 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.
End of official listing
