Paper Mill Lock, Including Lock Gates, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
PAPER MILL LOCK, INCLUDING LOCK GATES, CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237555
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paper Mill Lock, Including Lock Gates, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
- Statutory Address:
- PAPER MILL LOCK, INCLUDING LOCK GATES, CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION
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- Date:
- 1999-10-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/00273/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237555
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Paper Mill Lock, Including Lock Gates, Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAPER MILL LOCK, INCLUDING LOCK GATES, CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION
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:
- PAPER MILL LOCK, INCLUDING LOCK GATES, CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Baddow
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77600 08948
Details
1. LITTLE BADDOW PAPER MILL LOCK, 5213 including lock gates, Chelmer and TL 70 NE 10/334 Blackwater Navigation
II 2. Lock and lock gates. Circa 1797, Engineer John Rennie, work supervised by Richard Coates. Red brick in English Bond. Large granite coping stones and quoins. The wooden lock gates with iron hooks and chains and winding gear. Two mills stood next to the lock, one for grinding corn and the other for making paper - hence the lock's name. One of 12 original locks (see 55th list for Maldon District: Langford, 3/6 and 3/7).
Listing NGR: TL7760008948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428903
- 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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