Sowerby Long Bridge
SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313719
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sowerby Long Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313719
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sowerby Long Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE, HOLLINS MILL LANE
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:
- SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE
- Statutory Address:
- SOWERBY LONG BRIDGE, HOLLINS MILL LANE
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 05356 23991
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE ROCHDALE CANAL SE 0423 and SE 0523 12/177 Sowerby Long Bridge - - II Canal bridge. c1798, partly rebuilt C20. For the Rochdale Canal Company. Coursed squared stone. Built abutting the rock face. Quoined horseshoe arch with tie- stones; band truncated at north-east angle; parapet with ashlar coping. Pilaster buttress at south-west angle rises into ashlar pier with pyramidal capstone. The north-east corner has been rebuilt from just below band level upwards. The long tunnel has tow path on south side with large kerb stones. The Rochdale Canal was opened up between Sowerby Bridge and Rochdale in 1798. 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). K Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage, Hills, People and Transport (1981, p 64. Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, pp 22-23.
Listing NGR: SE0535623991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide, (1985), 22-23
Parry, K, Trans Pennine Heritage Hills People and Transport, (1981), 64
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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