German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom)
GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BURSCOUGH), MOSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297542
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom)
- Statutory Address:
- GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BURSCOUGH), MOSS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297542
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Burscough) Leeds and Liverpool Canal German's Lock and Bridge (That Part in Lathom)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BURSCOUGH), MOSS LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN LATHOM)
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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:
- GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN BURSCOUGH), MOSS LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL GERMAN'S LOCK AND BRIDGE (THAT PART IN LATHOM)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lathom
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 45642 13110
Details
BURSCOUGH
SD41SE MOSS LANE 663-1/3/24 (East side (off)) German's Lock and Bridge (that part in Burscough CP)
GV II
Includes: German's Lock and Bridge (that part in Lathom CP) LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL LATHOM. Canal lock and associated accommodation bridge, on Rufford Branch of Leeds-Liverpool Canal. c.1781, altered. Resident engineer Richard Owen. For the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. Large dressed sandstone blocks, with wooden gates, small cast-iron mooring bollards on both sides, overflow channel on west side. Bridge over north entrance: a stilted basket-arch with emphatic punch-dressed rusticated voussoirs, dressed band, parapet of massive blocks with rounded coping, plain terminal piers, steps down at west end, and oval number plate "3" on north side. Located on boundary between Burscough CP and Lathom CP.
Listing NGR: SD4564213110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386264
- 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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