LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298 LOWER MAUNSELL LOCK NO 3 AT ST 308298 MAUNSELL LOCK

LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344671
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1989
List Entry Name:: LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298 LOWER MAUNSELL LOCK NO 3 AT ST 308298 MAUNSELL LOCK
Statutory Address:: LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344671
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1989
List Entry Name:: LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298 LOWER MAUNSELL LOCK NO 3 AT ST 308298 MAUNSELL LOCK
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298
Statutory Address 2:: LOWER MAUNSELL LOCK NO 3 AT ST 308298
Statutory Address 3:: MAUNSELL LOCK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LOWER MAUNSELL BRIDGE AT ST 308298
Statutory Address:: LOWER MAUNSELL LOCK NO 3 AT ST 308298
Statutory Address:: MAUNSELL LOCK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: North Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 30795 29769

Details

ST 32 NW NORTH PETHERTON BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON 10/113 CANAL

Lower Maunsell Lock No 3 and Lower Maunsell Bridge (shown on OS map as Maunsel Lock) at ST 308298 GV II

Lock and public road bridge. 1824-1827 restored C20. Brick lock chamber. Two sets of double wooden gates with concrete balance beams. Counterweighted ground paddle gearing at top, with metal ball weights. Counterweighted gate paddle gear-ing at bottom, with metal cylindrical weights. This type of paddle gearing is unique to the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. Across the lock tail is the bridge. Brick. Single horseshoe arch, band, solid parapet with brick coping and piers with stone coping. The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal was constructed between 1824-1827 with James Hollinsworth as engineer.

Listing NGR: ST3079529769

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Legacy System number:: 269436
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.