Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) And Lock Number 6 Adjoining on East
GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342232
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) And Lock Number 6 Adjoining on East
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342232
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Union Canal Aylesbury Arm Bridge Number 2 (Dixons Gap Bridge) And Lock Number 6 Adjoining on East
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
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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.
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:
- GRAND UNION CANAL AYLESBURY ARM BRIDGE NUMBER 2 (DIXONS GAP BRIDGE) AND LOCK NUMBER 6 ADJOINING ON EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tring Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 90924 14473
Details
TRING RURAL GRAND UNION CANAL- SF 9014 AYLESBURY ARM 9/127 Bridge No. 2 - (Dixon's Gap Bridge) and Lock No. 6 adjoining on East GV II Canal bridge and adjoining lock. 1811-13. Engineer Henry Provis for Grand Junction Canal company. Bridge of red brick in English-bond. Lock of plum brick with long granite edging stones wooden gates and cast iron domed bollards. A narrow hump-backed bride carrying Wingrave Road over canal. A skew-arched bridge with round arch and 9" arch-ring. Battered side-walls topped by narrow raised band at roadway level and parapet walls with courses following the hump. Square projecting end piers terminate the outswept ends of the parapets. E parapet renewed in buff brick. An early example of a skew-bridge, little altered since arm opened in 1815. Narrow lock to take a single narrowboat with its lower end close to E side of bridge. Double gates to lower end with gate-paddles only. Single gate at upper end hinged on N side of lock. This end has ground paddles only, with gear set on timber posts. Stone edging on S bank and brick adjoining on N bank extend about 8M to E of entrance. Dated cast iron hinge anchor plate ('1851' at W end) is probably re-used from elsewhere. (Branch Johnson(1970)118-9,122: Faulkner(1972)92).
Listing NGR: SP9092414473
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355763
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Faulkner, A H, The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 92
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 118-9 122
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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