Spring Head and Horse Trough
SPRING HEAD AND HORSE TROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225200
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Head and Horse Trough
- Statutory Address:
- SPRING HEAD AND HORSE TROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225200
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Spring Head and Horse Trough
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRING HEAD AND HORSE TROUGH
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.
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:
- SPRING HEAD AND HORSE TROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oughterside and Allerby
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 07577 40998
Details
The following building shall be added:-
NW 14 SW ASPATRIA
448-/7/10000 BAGGROW
Spring head and horse trough
II
Spring head, water trough and flanking walls. Late C18 or earlier. Shallow stone rectangular water trough, set just above ground level to accept the flow of the feeder spring. Flanking the trough for approx 2 metres on either side are low retaining walls approx 1.25 metres high in roughly-coursed sandstone. The trough served the horse drawn traffic on the colliery road to Baggrow, prior to the development of the railway, and also the grain route within the locality to and from the local mill.
Listing NGR: NY0757740998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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