Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock NO.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and Adjoining Tailbridge NO.75 and Aqueduct No. 74)
HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL, LOCK NO.23 (LIME KILN LOCK AND ADJOINING TAILBRIDGE NO.75 AND AQUEDUCT NO. 74)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356719
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock NO.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and Adjoining Tailbridge NO.75 and Aqueduct No. 74)
- Statutory Address:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL, LOCK NO.23 (LIME KILN LOCK AND ADJOINING TAILBRIDGE NO.75 AND AQUEDUCT NO. 74)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356719
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Lock NO.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and Adjoining Tailbridge NO.75 and Aqueduct No. 74)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL, LOCK NO.23 (LIME KILN LOCK AND ADJOINING TAILBRIDGE NO.75 AND AQUEDUCT NO. 74)
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:
- HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL, LOCK NO.23 (LIME KILN LOCK AND ADJOINING TAILBRIDGE NO.75 AND AQUEDUCT NO. 74)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99551 06310
Details
SADDLEWORTH HUDDERSFIELD NARROW SD 9906 CANAL Uppermill 9/147 Lock No.23 (Lime Kiln Lock and adjoining tailbridge No.75 - and Aqueduct No. 74) G.V. II Lock, tail bridge and adjoining aqueduct over the River Tame. Betweeen 1794 and 1799. Benjamin Outram engineer. Hammer-dressed stone. Lock has single upper and double lower gates, is grooved for stop planks and has a boatman's ladder inserted in one wall dating from the 1984 restoration. The walls have several stonemason's marks. The bridge at the lower end has an elliptical arch and the parapet wall has a stone band, round-topped copings, is terminated in a square pier at one end and sweeps down to towpath level at the other. The aqueduct (higher end of lock) has a skew- segmental arch span, battered side walls with stone band and coping and battered square piers flanking the arch as well as terminating the walls. R.B. Scholfield, 'The Construction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal', Transactions of the Newcom Society, Vol.53, 1981-2.
Listing NGR: SD9955106310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Newcomen Society in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol. 53, (1982)
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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