Sluice House and Eel Trap North of Manor Ditch
SLUICE HOUSE AND EEL TRAP NORTH OF MANOR DITCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334951
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice House and Eel Trap North of Manor Ditch
- Statutory Address:
- SLUICE HOUSE AND EEL TRAP NORTH OF MANOR DITCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334951
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Sluice House and Eel Trap North of Manor Ditch
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLUICE HOUSE AND EEL TRAP NORTH OF MANOR DITCH
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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:
- SLUICE HOUSE AND EEL TRAP NORTH OF MANOR DITCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Britford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1520929010
Details
SU12NE
365/5/10008
22-FEB-01
BRITFORD
SALISBURY WATERMEADOWS
Sluice House and Eel Trap North of Manor Ditch
II
Eel trap and sluice house. Circa early C19; partly rebuilt circa mid C19; altered later C19. English and Flemish bond red brick and weatherboarding. Clay plain tile roofs with gabled and hipped ends.
PLAN: Long narrow range across a cut in the River Avon contains sluices and eel traps; at right angles at the south end forming overall L-shaped plan is the sluice house.
EXTERIOR: Single storey. Long narrow sluice range across the river standing on six stone piers; English bond brick on down stream east side with small square openings under eaves; weatherboarded on upstream west side with row of plank doors and brick walls to left and right. On south bank at right angles the brick sluice house with taller hipped roof.
INTERIOR: Sluice range across river has roof with tie-beams and common-rafter coupes intact. The sluice house contains machinery for operating the sluices including cast-iron gearing.
Listing NGR: SU1520929010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486856
- 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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