Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct
ROCHDALE CANAL BLACK PIT AQUEDUCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230245
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct
- Statutory Address:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BLACK PIT AQUEDUCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230245
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rochdale Canal Black Pit Aqueduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BLACK PIT AQUEDUCT
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:
- ROCHDALE CANAL BLACK PIT AQUEDUCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hebden Royd
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99100 27097
Details
SD 9927 HEBDEN ROYD C.P. ROCHDALE CANAL SD 991271
5/232 Black Pit Aqueduct
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G.V. II
Canal aqueduct over the River Calder. Dated 1797, W. Jessop and W. Crossley engineers. Large dressed stone. 4 segmental arches with keystones with bull- nosed breakwaters with pitch faced stone piers over. Parapet has carved head to keystone and bears date. Band and parapet with large cappings. An impressive engineering feat adjacent to the centre of Hebden Bridge. Illustrated in C. Spencer, Hebden Bridge History Trail (Hebden Bridge, no date) p.15.
Listing NGR: SD9910027097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Spencer, C, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (), 15
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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