Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock

Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock, Fradley Junction

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178100
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock
Statutory Address:: Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock, Fradley Junction

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178100
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock
Statutory Address 1:: Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock, Fradley Junction

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock, Fradley Junction

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Fradley and Streethay
National Grid Reference:: SK 14434 14229

Details

SK 11 SW 3/15

ALREWAS CP FRADLEY JUNCTION Bridge Number 50 and Keeper's Lock

GV II Canal bridge and lock. Circa 1770s with later alterations. Red brick and ashlar dressings. Single four-centred arch bridge with abutments sweeping round to each side; lock to the south-west of the bridge with wooden gates of circa 1980.

Keeper's Lock is one of a series of five on the Trent and Mersey Canal at its junction with the Coventry Canal. The Trent and Mersey Canal was completed in 1777; the surveyor-general was James Brindley. Both bridge and canal are included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK1443414229

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Legacy System number:: 272501
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)

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