MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260091
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
Statutory Address:: MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1260091
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND ADJOINING FOOTBRIDGE ON PEAK FOREST CANAL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MARPLE LOCKS NUMBER 4 AND 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 96079 89719

Details

SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST CANAL

7/132 Marple Locks No. 4 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 have been overhauled and are fully functional. The footbridge has a segmental rusticated keystone arch, an ashlar band and parapet walls with rounded copings which are terminates in battered square piers.

Listing NGR: SJ9607989719

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 441673
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.