Macclesfield Canal Bosley Lock Number 1 and Spillway
MACCLESFIELD CANAL BOSLEY LOCK NUMBER 1 AND SPILLWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313054
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Canal Bosley Lock Number 1 and Spillway
- Statutory Address:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL BOSLEY LOCK NUMBER 1 AND SPILLWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313054
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Macclesfield Canal Bosley Lock Number 1 and Spillway
- Statutory Address 1:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL BOSLEY LOCK NUMBER 1 AND SPILLWAY
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:
- MACCLESFIELD CANAL BOSLEY LOCK NUMBER 1 AND SPILLWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bosley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90525 66992
Details
BOSLEY C.P. MACCLESFIELD CANAL SJ 96 NW
1/13 Bosley Lock Number 1 and Spillway
GV II
Canal lock, 1831, William Crosley engineer. Rusticated red gritstone walls to lock, ashlar to spillway; brick patching to lock sides. Semi-circular upper end to lock basin. Stepped quadrant retaining wall to bank west of lock: flight of stone steps to east. Cambered footbridge of cast iron across lock entrance, with later plain steel tubular rail. Two pairs of timber lock gates. Curved wing walls above lock; straight walls below to Bridge 54 (q.v.). Stone-walled spillway west of lock.
Listing NGR: SJ9052566992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58124
- 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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