Greenland Lock Including Gates, Bollards and Capstans

GREENLAND LOCK INCLUDING GATES, BOLLARDS AND CAPSTANS, SURREY DOCKS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385943
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:
Greenland Lock Including Gates, Bollards and Capstans
Statutory Address:
GREENLAND LOCK INCLUDING GATES, BOLLARDS AND CAPSTANS, SURREY DOCKS
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Date:
2001-05-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385943
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
Greenland Lock Including Gates, Bollards and Capstans
Statutory Address 1:
GREENLAND LOCK INCLUDING GATES, BOLLARDS AND CAPSTANS, SURREY DOCKS

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREENLAND LOCK INCLUDING GATES, BOLLARDS AND CAPSTANS, SURREY DOCKS

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 36616 79262

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3679SE SURREY DOCKS 636-1/25/752 Greenland Lock including gates, 01/07/83 bollards and capstans (Formerly Listed as: SURREY DOCKS Greenland Lock)

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Lock, reconstructed for 3rd time 1894-1904. By Sir John Wolfe Barry, engineer. Brick-lined with granite kerbs and iron bollards and capstans. Lock gates worked by hydraulic rams acting directly on the gates, an early use of this principle in Britain. The machinery preserved in situ. The raised lip at edge of granite lockside coping is a safety measure used previously at Liverpool. The hydraulic mechanisms were supplied in 1898 by Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell and Co Ltd.

Listing NGR: TQ3661679262

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
471363
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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