Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232613
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
- Statutory Address:
- FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/17107/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232613
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
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:
- FLIGHT OF 5 LOCKS ON THE FORMER SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Southstoke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7441760592
Details
ST 76 SW
6/222
SOUTH STOKE
Flight of 5 Locks on the Former Somersetshire Coal Canal
II
Five disused locks. Circa 1805. The surveyor for the Canal Company was
William Smith, 'Father of British Geology'. Engineer for this flight originally
of 19 locks (four are now buried or destroyed and ten are in the adjoining parish
of Combe Hay) was probably William Bennet. The locks are of standard dimensions,
approximately 70 feet long by 7 feet wide. Ashlar retaining walls survive to
about 10-12 feet high (some are in a poor condition); the entrance and exit walls
are battered and splayed. Some remains of sluices and culverts. The fourth
lock from the west retains a milestone on the north-west side; a cast iron plate
(now missing) read 4/MILES. These five locks, as part of the original flight of
19, represent the final, successful attempt to achieve the change in level on the
Paulton branch of the canal. Two former attempts - a caisson lock, and an
inclined plane with 3 lower locks - had failed. (K.R. Clew, The Somersetshire
Coal Canal and Railways, Country Life, 6.IV.1951.).
Listing NGR: ST7441760592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407982
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clew, K R, The Somersetshire Coal Canal and Railway, ()
Country Life in 6 April, (1951)
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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