Seven Arches Aqueduct and Conduit Facade
SEVEN ARCHES AQUEDUCT AND CONDUIT FACADE, SCOTLAND WOOD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256089
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Seven Arches Aqueduct and Conduit Facade
- Statutory Address:
- SEVEN ARCHES AQUEDUCT AND CONDUIT FACADE, SCOTLAND WOOD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256089
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Seven Arches Aqueduct and Conduit Facade
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEVEN ARCHES AQUEDUCT AND CONDUIT FACADE, SCOTLAND WOOD
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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:
- SEVEN ARCHES AQUEDUCT AND CONDUIT FACADE, SCOTLAND WOOD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2860739444
Details
SE23NE
714-1/6/984
09/06/86
LEEDS
SCOTLAND WOOD, Meanwood Park
Seven Arches Aqueduct and conduit facade
(Formerly Listed as:
SCOTLAND WOOD, Meanwood Park
Seven Arches Aqueduct and cast-iron culvert)
II
Aqueduct and water conduit over Adel Beck. Aqueduct c1840. By
George Leather, engineer; built by Abraham and Mylne. For the
Leeds Water Works Company. Rock-faced coursed stone and
ashlar.
7 arches supported on attenuated rectangular piers with
stepped voussoirs and decking level moulded string course. 3
courses above to closed conduit. C20 safety railings at each
end. Water conduit: dated 1866; coursed squared gritstone
curbs and revetment walls to stream bed, cast-iron plate
approx 10m downstream from the aqueduct. The plate approx 2.5m
long and 0.75m deep, with mouldings top and bottom and 3
fielded-panels framed by raised mouldings, the centre
enclosing raised lettering: 'LEEDS CORPORATION/ WATER WORKS/
1866'.
Eccup reservoir was built in 1840 to supply clean water (the
first alternative to the River Aire) to the centre of Leeds
after the cholera epidemics of the 1830s. Improvements to the
supplies included the installation of a new mains in 1866,
still in use.
Listing NGR: SE2860739444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465256
- 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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