Trent and Mersey Canal, Big Lock and Footbridge
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, BIG LOCK AND FOOTBRIDGE, WEBBS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229624
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, Big Lock and Footbridge
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, BIG LOCK AND FOOTBRIDGE, WEBBS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229624
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, Big Lock and Footbridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, BIG LOCK AND FOOTBRIDGE, WEBBS LANE
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:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, BIG LOCK AND FOOTBRIDGE, WEBBS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middlewich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70148 66827
Details
MIDDLEWICH C.P. TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SJ 76 NW at Webbs Lane 2/52 Big Lock and Footbridge
- - II
Canal lock, mid C19, of blue brick with red sandstone plinths and copings. Double lock gates, the upper pair of timber, the lower pair replaced in steel. Iron footbridge, probably later C19 with path on cambered iron plates. Blue brick abutments and path ramps. The lock is approximately 5 metres wide - hence its name. It retains the dimensions determined in 1776 when it was intended that Middlewich should be the trans-shipment point between "Mersey flats" and narrowboats.
Listing NGR: SJ7014866827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56383
- 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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