Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Deans Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196624
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Statutory Address:
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Deans Lane
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196624
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Statutory Address 1:
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Deans Lane

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Deans Lane

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Newburgh
National Grid Reference:
SD 47771 11023

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/07/2019

SD41SE
663-1/3/118

NEWBURGH
DEANS LANE
Canal Aqueduct, Leeds and Liverpool Canal

(Formerly listed as Canal Aqueduct, DEANS LANE)

II
Canal aqueduct carrying Leeds-Liverpool Canal over public road. c.1771-4. Resident engineer James Brindley, succeeded c.1771-72 by John Longbotham. For Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company. Large squared sandstone blocks and some brick; coursed sandstone rubble parapet (south side only). A low semi-circular culvert with plain voussoirs to the portals, which are flanked by raked abutments at right-angles, that on the south east side of brick (and that on the north east side of concrete), all with flat stone copings carried down from a plain cornice. Short central parapet with rounded coping. Part of one of the earliest and most ambitious trunk canals in the country.
Listing NGR: SD4777111023

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Legacy System number:
386356
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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