LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299854
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299854
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LOCK NUMBER 1 ONTO SOWERBY BASIN, SOWERBY BRIDGE

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 06417 23652

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE ROCHDALE CANAL, SE 0623-0723 Sowerby Bridge 13/175 Lock No 1 onto Sowerby Basin - GV II Canal lock. c1798. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Large blocks of coursed stone, quoins and some upper blocks punch-dressed. Recesses in each side wall at either end for lock gates (removed) and at lower (east) end for a 2nd pair of gates. At upper end lock-gate recesses have culvert entrances and iron buffers are attached to the top of the round-cornered entrance walls. The Rochdale Canal was opened up in sections between 1798 and 1804. The line was originally surveyed by James Brindley in 1776, resurveyed by John Rennie in 1791, and construction was finally supervised by William Jessop (engineer) and William Crossley (resident engineer). The idea of having a second pair of gates at one end of the lock was that whilst the lock was large enough to hold the 74' x 14'2" x 4' craft coming from the Manchester end of the canal, when the shorter (57'6" x 14') craft from the Calder and Hebble Navigation went through the inner gate could be used, so shortening the lock and requiring less water (50 tons of water could be saved on each filling/ emptying). However, it is not certain that this system was actually put into practice (Parry, p64). Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage, Hill, People and Transport (1981). Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce official Tourist Guide.

Listing NGR: SE0641723652

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Legacy System number:: 339302
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985)
Parry, K, Trans Pennine Heritage Hills People and Transport, (1981)

Legal

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