Nantwich Aqueduct
NANTWICH AQUEDUCT, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330146
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Nantwich Aqueduct
- Statutory Address:
- NANTWICH AQUEDUCT, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330146
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Nantwich Aqueduct
- Statutory Address 1:
- NANTWICH AQUEDUCT, CHESTER ROAD
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:
- NANTWICH AQUEDUCT, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burland and Acton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 64203 52578
Details
In the entry for:-
ACTON CHESTER ROAD SJ 65 SW 4/95 Nantwich Aqueduct II
The entry shall be amended to read:- SJ 65 SW CHESTER ROAD 4/95 Nantwich Aqueduct II*
------------------------------------ The following building shall be added:
ACTON CHESTER ROAD SJ 65 SW Nantwich Aqueduct 4/95 II
Aqueduct carrying the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal over the Chester to Nantwich Road. Circa 1826 (consultant T. Telford). Stone dressed brick abutements with cast-iron trough. Cast iron segmental arch with ribbed soffit. Triangular sunken panels to spandrels with five flange-bolted panels at trough level. The bridge arch sits on moulded stone imposts which return across the faces of stone pilasters which flank the carriageway opening. The pilasters continue upwards to become square piers with four-way weathered caps above a projecting band at parapet level. The piers support the cast-iron balustrade over the highway and on top of the curved embankment retaining walls. The impost continues as a string course across the embankment wall and the pier base bands become the coping. The curved, horizontal sections of the embankment wall terminate as pilasters and piers similar to those which flank the carriageway opening.
Listing NGR: SJ6420352578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Battlefields Register,
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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