Posset Bridge (Number 18) On Peak Forest Canal
POSSET BRIDGE (NUMBER 18) ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Posset Bridge (Number 18) On Peak Forest Canal
- Statutory Address:
- POSSET BRIDGE (NUMBER 18) ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
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- Date:
- 2001-10-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/05749/05
- Rights:
- © Mr Neil Short. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260014
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Posset Bridge (Number 18) On Peak Forest Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- POSSET BRIDGE (NUMBER 18) ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
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:
- POSSET BRIDGE (NUMBER 18) ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 96098 88679
Details
SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST CANAL
7/141 No. 18 - (Posset Bridge)
G.V. II
Bridge and horse tunnel. 1804. Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown engineers. Rock-faced and dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Three openings: one the canal, one a branch to the lime kilns (now blocked) and a horse tunnel, there is also a boatman's passage giving access from pound level to the upper level. The 2 canal arches are skew, semi- circular and have keystones. A battered pier separates them and a band is largely obscured by a C20 footbridge. The parapets (some of which are missing) are of ashlar blocks with rounded tops. The horse tunnel is a compressed horseshoe arch with keystone, stone band and square piers to either side.
Listing NGR: SJ9609888679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441844
- 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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