NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL

NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL, CHESTER STREET B6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276277
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL, CHESTER STREET B6

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Date:: 2004-11-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276277
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL, CHESTER STREET B6

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 7 LOCK, ASTON CANAL FLIGHT WITH FOOTBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM/FAZELEY CANAL, CHESTER STREET B6

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 08026 88461

Details

By the exclusion of: 1. CHESTER STREET 5104 Aston B6 No 10 Lock, Aston Flight with footbridge, Birmingham/ Fazeley Canal SP 08 NE 7/14 II 2. Mid 1770's origin, single narrow lock with single botom gate. Thick brick, and stone dressed. By the bottom gate is a cantilevered footbridge, probably circa 1840, consisting of cast iron girders with wood deck and low set hand rails to each end raised a few inches above the lock edge to allow passage for a tow rope.

1. CHESTER STREET 5104 Aston B6 SP 08 NE 7/14 No 7 Lock, Aston Canal Flight with Footbridge, Birmingham/Fazeley Canal II 2. Canal Lock. Mid 1770's. Thick brick with stone dressings. Single narrow lock with single bottom gate, and cantilevered foot-bridge probably c.1840, consisting of cast iron girders with concrete deck and low set hand rails to each side, raised a few inchesa bove the lock edge to allow passage of tow rope.

Listing NGR: SP0802688461

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Legacy System number:: 409751
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.