WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT

WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382221
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address:: WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1382221
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address 1:: WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD 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:: WOOTTON WAWEN AQUEDUCT, SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Wootton Wawen
National Grid Reference:: SP 15854 62976

Details

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE SOUTH STRATFORD CANAL 1457-1/5/155 Wootton Wawen Aqueduct 04/01/90

II*

Aqueduct. 1813 with later additions and restorations of 1960. By William Whitmore for the Stratford Canal Company. Cast-iron trough with integral towpath with cast-iron railings to north, brick piers and retaining walls in English bond with ashlar copings. Railings have stick balusters and moulded handrail and brackets. All carried on 3 piers, those 2 to east are splayed, that to west restored. South side of aqueduct has an attached oval plate with inscription: `This Aqueduct was erected by The Stratford Canal company in October 1813, Bernard Dewes Esqr Chairman, W James Esqr Dept Chairman, W Whitmore Engineer.' Crosses Stratford Road, A34. The Southern 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 National Trust acquired the freehold c1964. Wootton Wawen Aqueduct is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, County number 132.

Listing NGR: SP1585462976

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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.