Canal Basins, Locks and Wharves
CANAL BASINS, LOCKS AND WHARVES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209441
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Basins, Locks and Wharves
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL BASINS, LOCKS AND WHARVES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209441
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Basins, Locks and Wharves
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL BASINS, LOCKS AND WHARVES
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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:
- CANAL BASINS, LOCKS AND WHARVES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourport-on-Severn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81011 71049
Details
STOURPORT ON SEVERN
SO8071SE Canal Basins, Locks and Wharves 589-1/8/1 05/07/50 (Formerly Listed as: Canal Basins and Locks)
GV II
Canal basins, locks and wharves, built by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Company from 1766. James Brindley was the principal engineer. Original construction was stone and brick for basin and lock walls, timber lock gates, stone wharf walls. Much of this has now been repaired or renewed, though the battered stone walls of the lock entrances remain and the wharf walls survive largely intact. Canal enters by York Street Lock in NE corner of Upper Basin, which was completed in 1771. It still contains a small dock inlet in the north section. Channel links this basin to Old Basin of 1782 to the west, and locks south from each basin link to the lower basins of 1771 and 1775. Dry dock entered from western lower basin, and narrow boat locks of 1781 connect it with the river. Barge locks leave from the eastern lower basin, 1771. Graving docks also accessed from this basin. Brick and stone bridges formerly crossed the locks linking upper and lower basins: the eastern bridge survives substantially, though one parapet has been renewed. A small cast-iron bridge (early C20?) crosses the top of the narrow boat locks, and a brick bridge crosses at the bottom. Wharf walls of coursed and squared sandstone extend along the river between the two sets of locks, and eastward for some 100 m., also probably late C18. (Porteous J D: Canal Ports: The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age: London: 1977-: 83-105).
Listing NGR: SO8101171049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393302
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Porteous, J D, Canal Ports The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age, (1977), 83-105
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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