STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE) STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL UPPER BRATCH BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED TOLL HOUSE

STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232421
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE) STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL UPPER BRATCH BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED TOLL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232421
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE) STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL UPPER BRATCH BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED TOLL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE)
Statutory Address 2:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL UPPER BRATCH BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED TOLL HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL BRATCH LOCKS, BRIDGE NUMBER 47 (BRATCH BRIDGE)
Statutory Address:: STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE CANAL UPPER BRATCH BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED TOLL HOUSE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Wombourne
National Grid Reference:: SO 86749 93797

Details

WOMBOURNE C.P. STAFFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTER- SO 8693-8793 SHIRE CANAL 13/157 Bratch locks, bridges No 47 (Bratch Bridge) and 48 (upper Bratch Bridge) and associated toll house. GV II 3 locks, 2 bridges and a toll house. Circa 1770, toll house added circa 1800, further alterations of the late C19. Red and blue brick, the bridges and toll house are painted white. Flight of locks separated from each other by the 2 bridges. Bridge No 48 is C19 and has a single segmental arch. Bridge No 47 is C18 and incorporates a flight of steps to the canal, it was widened in the C19 by an addition to the south. 2 storey octagonal toll house attached to Bridge No 48 with doors at the level of both the middle and upper locks; semi-circular arched panels to each face at first floor level, most containing fixed light glazing bar windows. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal was opened in 1772, the enginer was James Brindley.

Listing NGR: SO8674993797

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Legacy System number:: 407805
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.