Yarningdale Aqueduct

YARNINGDALE AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1382094
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
Yarningdale Aqueduct
Statutory Address:
YARNINGDALE AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1382094
Date first listed:
04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
Yarningdale Aqueduct
Statutory Address 1:
YARNINGDALE AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
YARNINGDALE AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:
Rowington
County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Claverdon
National Grid Reference:
SP1839666383

Details

CLAVERDON

SP16NE

1457-1/2/45

SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

Yarningale Aqueduct

04/01/90

II*

Aqueduct. 1834. Cast-iron trough with integral towpath with iron railings, moulded handrail and brackets. Brick abutments with stone coping. Two small plates attached to west side of aqueduct, one inscribed: 'HORSELEY IRON CO', the other one immediately below inscribed: '1834'. This aqueduct replaced an earlier one which collapsed.

The South Stratford Canal was constructed between 1793-1816 at a cost of £500,000. 13.5 miles of the canal from Kingswood Junction, Lapworth to Stratford-upon-Avon was leased by the National Trust in 1960 from the British Waterways Board for restoration. The Trust acquired the freehold c1964.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 May 2018.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
482459
Legacy System:
LBS

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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