Marple Locks Number 1 and Adjoining Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal
MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 1 AND ADJOINING ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260090
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Marple Locks Number 1 and Adjoining Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal
- Statutory Address:
- MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 1 AND ADJOINING ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260090
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Marple Locks Number 1 and Adjoining Adjoining Footbridge on Peak Forest Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 1 AND ADJOINING ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE 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:
- MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 1 AND ADJOINING ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE 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 95850 89980
Details
SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST CANAL
7/129 Marple Locks No. 1 and adjoining - footbridge
G.V. II
Lock and adjoining footbridge. 1803 to 1805. Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown engineers, financed by S. Oldknow and R. Arkwright and built by James and Fox. Dressed stone and ashlar. Single upper gate, double lower gate and footbridge at lower end. 4m. pound-to-pound level to accommodate steepness of slope. Lock walls in large coursed stone blocks with rounded verge. The mouth is grooved for stop planks. The gates hve been overhauled and are fully functional. The footbridge has a segmental shaped keystone arch, an ashlar band and parapet walls of massive ashlar sections which are terminated by a battered square pier at one end with a small abutting flight of steps, and sweeps down at the other end to the level of the pound.
Listing NGR: SJ9585089980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441670
- 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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