FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507

FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375145
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507
Statutory Address:: FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375145
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1993
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507
Statutory Address 1:: FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORD AND WEIR ON RIVER AIRE AT NGR 2632 3507, COMMERCIAL 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 26318 35072

Details

LEEDS

SE2635 COMMERCIAL ROAD, Kirkstall 714-1/22/925 (South side (off)) 23/03/93 Ford and weir on River Aire at NGR 2632 3507 (Formerly Listed as: COMMERCIAL ROAD, Kirkstall (South side) Ford and Weir on River Aire)

II

Weir surmounted by ford with revetment walls crossing River Aire. Early C19. Gritstone. Approx 30m long and 2m wide. Massive stone blocks set on edge form weir and roadway with edge-tooled stone revetment walls approx 3m long flanking approach roads on each river bank. Part of the extensive river engineering works at the time of the building of Burley Mills (qv) and possibly St Anne's which was built by 1826. Suitable for vehicular traffic, the ford gave access to the island formed between the mill race and river with a bridge over the channel at St Anne's Mills, demolished.

Listing NGR: SE2631835072

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Legacy System number:: 466026
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.