Shropshire Union Canal, Shrewsbury Branch Canal Bridge Approximately 20 Metres to West of Numbers 1 and 2, Canal Cottages
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177227
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal, Shrewsbury Branch Canal Bridge Approximately 20 Metres to West of Numbers 1 and 2, Canal Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177227
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal, Shrewsbury Branch Canal Bridge Approximately 20 Metres to West of Numbers 1 and 2, Canal Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
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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:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SHREWSBURY BRANCH CANAL BRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES TO WEST OF NUMBERS 1 AND 2, CANAL COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Atcham
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5408011212
Details
SJ 51 SW
SJ 5408 1120
3/67
ATCHAM C.P.
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, Shrewsbury Branch
Canal bridge approximately 20 metres to west of Nos.1 and 2, Canal Cottages
II
Canal bridge. Circa 1797. Plum-coloured brick (English bond) with red
brick dressings and grey sandstone coping. Segmental arch with projecting
brick keystone, string course, and curved parapet has square end piers
with pyramidal caps. Included as one of the last surviving unaltered
examples of a bridge in this section of the now disused Shrewsbury arm
of the Shropshire Union Canal (begun 1793 and opened in 1797). Nos.1 and
2 Canal cottages are not included in this list. Charles Hadfield, The
Canals of the West Midlands, David and Charles (1969), Pp.160-3.
Listing NGR: SJ5408011212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259293
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the West Midlands, (1969), 160-3
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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