Canal Bridge
CANAL BRIDGE, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244907
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL BRIDGE, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244907
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL BRIDGE, MANCHESTER ROAD
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:
- CANAL BRIDGE, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83880 32242
Details
BURNLEY
SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/89 Canal Bridge
GV II
Public road bridge over Leeds-Liverpool Canal. c1796, widened in mid C19. Coursed squared sandstone. Semi-elliptical arch with rusticated voussoirs, plain band, parapet with flat coping (that on south-east side replaced by cast-iron footway); oval number plate on north-west side. Soffit has 2 lateral joints, the central section between them roofed with cast-iron plates. Forms important element of group at this site, with No.85 (Wharfmaster's House) adjoining north-west corner (qv) and with 3 warehouses beyond this (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8388032242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467130
- 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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