Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold
BRIDGE NUMBER 17 OVER CANAL, NORTH OF MITCHELL FOLD, SIMPSON LANE, SK12
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277239
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 17 OVER CANAL, NORTH OF MITCHELL FOLD, SIMPSON LANE, SK12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277239
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Number 17 Over Canal, North of Mitchell Fold
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 17 OVER CANAL, NORTH OF MITCHELL FOLD, SIMPSON LANE, SK12
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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:
- BRIDGE NUMBER 17 OVER CANAL, NORTH OF MITCHELL FOLD, SIMPSON LANE, SK12
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pott Shrigley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94508 82049
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/01/2017
SJ 98 SW,
3/105
POTT SHRIGLEY C.P.,
SIMPSON LANE,
Bridge No.17 over canal, north of Mitchell Fold
(Formerly listed as: Bridge No.18 over canal, north of Mitchelfold)
II
Canal bridge: c.1830 by William Crosley for Macclesfield Canal
Company. Hammer-dressed sandstone with flat wooden centre. 2 stone
piers with square pilasters away from Canal, with chamfered coping at
road level and segmental coping above plain parapet. The edges are
slotted to carry removable, wooden roadway, the existing one being a
C20 replacement. Cobbled ramp leads from towpath to north-east
corner.
There is an early C20, diamond-shaped cast-iron sign recording wading
restrictions at one corner and a similar bridge, No.14 (q.v.)
survives in Poynton.
Listing NGR: SJ9450882049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407447
- 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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