Kirkthorpe Weir and Sluice Gates

KIRKTHORPE WEIR AND SLUICE GATES

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1200709
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
Statutory Address:
KIRKTHORPE WEIR AND SLUICE GATES
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1200709
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1986
Statutory Address 1:
KIRKTHORPE WEIR AND SLUICE GATES

Location

Statutory Address:
KIRKTHORPE WEIR AND SLUICE GATES

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

District:
Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
District:
Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Warmfield cum Heath
National Grid Reference:
SE3577821243

Details

SE32SE WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH RIVER CALDER

1/108 Kirkthorpe Weir and sluice gates

II

Weir and sluice gates across the River Calder. Probably second quarter C19, sluice gates dated 1827. Ashlar and cast-iron. Segmental curved weir has 8 steps with, to west and east, curved retaining walls of giant ashlar blocks. At east end 3 sluices divided by 6 giant stepped buttresses with pointed-arched cutwaters to the south. Two original sluice gates with circular winding gear and large cog wheel the plates with lettering in relief reading

"HEWES & WREN MANCHESTER 1827"

to each face. A large and impressive feat of engineering, the sluices in working order.

Partly in the parish of Stanley.

Listing NGR: SE3578421247

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
342413
Legacy System:
LBS

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