Grand Union Canal Flight of 7 Locks and Side Ponds
GRAND UNION CANAL FLIGHT OF 7 LOCKS AND SIDE PONDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342732
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Union Canal Flight of 7 Locks and Side Ponds
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND UNION CANAL FLIGHT OF 7 LOCKS AND SIDE PONDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342732
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Union Canal Flight of 7 Locks and Side Ponds
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND UNION CANAL FLIGHT OF 7 LOCKS AND SIDE PONDS
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:
- GRAND UNION CANAL FLIGHT OF 7 LOCKS AND SIDE PONDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Watford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59285 68805
Details
WATFORD GRAND UNION CANAL SP56NE 5/283 Flight of 7 locks and side ponds
- II
Staircase of 4 locks; as part of flight of 7 locks. Early C19, refurbished 1902 (datestones). Retaining walls blue brick with stone coping. Wing walls at top of flight blue brick. Wooden gates, balance beams in steel to some locks. C20 footbridges. The paddle gear is probably 1902 but may incorporate some earlier work. The gear is notable as being still connected to the paddle by wooden rods, mostly replaced elsewhere by metal rods (note from A.T. Conder, Curator, Waterways Museum, Stoke Bruerne). West of the locks is a group of side ponds for conservation of water. The Grand Union Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1810, the Watford section was opened in 1814. (A.H. Faulkner, The Grand Junction Canal, 1972, p.187-8 and p.197).
Listing NGR: SP5928568805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Faulkner, A H, The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 187-8
Faulkner, A H, The Grand Junction Canal, (1972), 197
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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