Wave Wall, Water Ladder, and Attached Buildings
WAVE WALL, WATER LADDER, AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281534
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wave Wall, Water Ladder, and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- WAVE WALL, WATER LADDER, AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281534
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wave Wall, Water Ladder, and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAVE WALL, WATER LADDER, AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
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:
- WAVE WALL, WATER LADDER, AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Flasby with Winterburn
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9442559979
Details
SD 96 SW & SD 95 NW
1298-/1/10000
FLASBY WITH WINTERBURN
HETTON
WINTERBURN RESERVOIR
Wave wall, water-ladder, and attached buildings
II
Wave wall with valve tower and bridge, water-ladder, low level outlet, weir and gauging
house. c1885-1893 by Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter, Civil Engineers of Leeds. Wave wall
running east-west is c 175m long with an average height of 1 3m. Constructed of
rock-faced, coursed stone with ashlar copings rising to a point. Wall incorporates a built out
valve tower with two cast iron valve capstans. At east end of wall is a twin-arched bridge
with rusticated abutments, central pier and voussoirs to arches. Returns to south each have
a Gibbsian niche with rusticated quoins set in ashlar walling. End piers are rusticated with
pyramidal caps. Bridge parapets are rock-faced above an ashlar string. Bridge crosses spillway
which includes to north a semi-circular, stepped weir and to south a grand water-ladder
stepping down reservoir dam on a curving plan. Water-ladder is c70 m long, ashlar paved
and stepped, and walled with rock-faced stonework with crow-stepped copings. Walling
includes a pair of intermediate piers and a pair of end piers, both rusticated, with pyramidal
caps. Adjoining at south-west comer, a low-level valve tower outlet of stone with a
rusticated Gibbsian circular portal. To south linked by low stone walling, a stone control
weir and a gauging house on a plinth; a square, rock-faced building with a pyramidal slate
roof, a single chimney stack and rectangular windows. An unusual and outstanding example
of a canal reservoir being given architectural treatment. Built to serve the Leeds and
Liverpool Canal. (Part lies in Hetton civil parish).
Listing NGR: SD9442559979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382302
- 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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