LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348469
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address:: LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348469
Date first listed:: 02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL

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:: LOCK NO 46 AND ADJOINING BRIDGE NO 137 ON GRAND UNION CANAL

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Northchurch
National Grid Reference:: SP 95849 10324

Details

NORTHCHURCH COW ROAST SP 91 SE 1/218 Lock No. 46, - and adjoining Bridge No. 137 on Grand Union Canal

GV II

Adjoining canal lock, and road bridge over canal. Lock c.1799 as part of the Grand Junction Canal (became Grand Union by amalgamation 1929). Dates on gate hinge plates, 1874 on lower gate, 1896 on upper gate. Bridge contemporary, deck changed from timber to concrete on original wrought iron girders between 1893 and 1914. Lock of buff brick with heavy stone edgings to lock. Timber gates with timber balance beams on upper gates but metal beams on lower gates. Lock 88ft by 16ft to accommodate narrow-boats in pairs. 5 old wooden bollards. Upper gates have both gate and ground paddles: lower gates have gate paddles only. Similar brick to bridge, close to lower gates with quadrant brick steps between. Brick parapets over projecting band with pilaster and pier each side of 14ft span. Cambered wrought iron built-up girders with diagonal tie-rod below deck. Hollow moulded stone impost band to abutments and rounded cast-iron corner protectors on towpath (N) side. Open ironwork balustrades of hooped iron railings with 3 heavy hooped iron standards with serpentine infill. (Branch Johnson (1970)118-20: W Branch Johnson: Ind. Surv. of Herts. 1964-6 ref.2840 at County Planning Dept., Hertford: inf.BMB Watford).

Listing NGR: SP9584910324

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Legacy System number:: 157748
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 118-20
Branch Johnson, W , Industrial Survey of Hertfordshire at County Planning Department, (1964-6)

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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.