Canal Bridge Number 164 About 400 Metres East of the Grove

CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 164 ABOUT 400 METRES EAST OF THE GROVE, GROVE MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295909
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:
Canal Bridge Number 164 About 400 Metres East of the Grove
Statutory Address:
CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 164 ABOUT 400 METRES EAST OF THE GROVE, GROVE MILL LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295909
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Canal Bridge Number 164 About 400 Metres East of the Grove
Statutory Address 1:
CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 164 ABOUT 400 METRES EAST OF THE GROVE, GROVE MILL LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CANAL BRIDGE NUMBER 164 ABOUT 400 METRES EAST OF THE GROVE, GROVE MILL LANE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:
Sarratt
National Grid Reference:
TQ0862698827

Details

SARRATT GROVE MILL LANE Watford (Northeast side)
TQ 09 NE 6/306
Canal Bridge No. 164 about 400m E of The Grove
(Formerly listed as Canal Bridge at Grove House in the civil parish of Watford Rural)
15.11.73

GV II

Accommodation bridge over Grand Union Canal carrying approach drive to The Grove (q.v.) c.1800. Elaborately stuccoed brick. Neo-classical style. 5m wide, humped. Segmental arch with radiating voussoirs and keystone, flanked each side by small segmental headed arches between panelled piers. Parapet with piers ornamented with oval plaques, dummy balustrade over dentil cornice. Splayed out at banks to end piers.

This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1101131) was removed from the List on 29 April 2019. The remaining record (List entry number 1295909) falls within the districts of both ‘Three Rivers’ and ‘Watford’.

Listing NGR: TQ0862698827

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Legacy System number:
158951
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 121

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Canal Bridge Number 164 About 400 Metres East of the Grove

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