Aire and Calder Navigation Cut and Locks
AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION CUT AND LOCKS, CLARENCE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375056
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Aire and Calder Navigation Cut and Locks
- Statutory Address:
- AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION CUT AND LOCKS, CLARENCE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375056
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Aire and Calder Navigation Cut and Locks
- Statutory Address 1:
- AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION CUT AND LOCKS, CLARENCE ROAD
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:
- AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION CUT AND LOCKS, CLARENCE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30875 33014
Details
LEEDS
SE3033SE CLARENCE ROAD 714-1/79/111 (North side (off)) Aire and Calder Navigation Cut and locks
GV II
Channel cut to allow navigation past the Leeds dam, with 2 sets of locks. Probably c1830-40. By George Leather, engineer, on the line of the Aire and Calder Navigation Cut of 1699-1700. Stone lining and edges, wood and iron lock gates and fittings. Approx 200m long and varying in width from approx 10m to 25m, parallel lock chambers at eastern end, the narrower northern lock not in use, gates repaired. Channel to Clarence Dock on south side, under Clarence Road bridge. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Aire and Calder Navigation Act was passed in 1699 and improvements to the river then enabled water-borne goods to reach the city which until that time depended entirely on road transport. The development of the riverside wharves and warehouses dates from that time, with merchants able to ship cloth directly to Hull and the Continent. For further historical information, see Basin of New Dock, Clarence Road (qv). (Fraser, D: A History of Modern Leeds: 1980-: 119).
Listing NGR: SE3087533014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fraser, D, A History of Modern Leeds, (1980), 119
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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