Castle Mills Lock
CASTLE MILLS LOCK, CASTLE MILLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259357
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Mills Lock
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE MILLS LOCK, CASTLE MILLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259357
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Mills Lock
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE MILLS LOCK, CASTLE MILLS
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:
- CASTLE MILLS LOCK, CASTLE MILLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60605 51279
Details
YORK
SE6051SE CASTLE MILLS 1112-1/22/128 (South side (off)) Castle Mills Lock
II
Canal lock chamber. Rebuilt in 1889. Gritstone with some concrete repair. Near the centre of the chamber there are recesses in each side wall, with grooves for stop planks. The double timber gates are a C20 renewal, but C19 cast-iron winding and paddle gear remains. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Foss Navigation Act was passed in 1793, and the canal was opened as far as Strensall in c1796. In 1859 York Corporation gained an Act to abandon the Foss Navigation except for just over one mile in York. In 1889 the Corporation rebuilt Castle Mills lock for Henry Leetham and Sons, flour millers, to take steam keels 97' x 18'6" carrying 230 tons. (Paget-Tomlinson EW: The Complete Book of Canal and River Navigations: Wolverhampton: 1978-: 126).
Listing NGR: SE6060551279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Paget Tomlinson, W, The Complete Book of Canal and River Navigations, (1978), 126
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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