AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253637
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240
Statutory Address:: AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253637
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240
Statutory Address 1:: AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240

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:: AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION BIRKWOOD LOCK AT SE 359 240

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Normanton and Altofts
National Grid Reference:: SE3596624039

Details

NORMANTON AIRE AND CALDER SE 32 SE NAVIGATION CALDER CUT 2/48 Birkwood Lock at - SE 359 240 - II Lock on Calder Cut of Aire and Calder Navigation. Opened 1839; Engineers George Leather and Son of Leeds. Sandstone in large dressed blocks (with some concrete repairs); wooden gates. Quadrantally curved entrances at each end; upper and lower gates, and intermediate gates (now operated hydraulically, by electric power, but manual until 1960's). Overflow sluice from north west corner. (Modern control cabin and bridge not including in the item).

Listing NGR: SE3596624039

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Legacy System number:: 436889
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.