MAUD FOSTER SLUICE

MAUD FOSTER SLUICE, WINDSOR BANK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389072
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: MAUD FOSTER SLUICE
Statutory Address:: MAUD FOSTER SLUICE, WINDSOR BANK

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Date:: 2001-05-13
Reference:: IOE01/03663/21
Rights:: © Mr John Scarbro. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389072
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: MAUD FOSTER SLUICE
Statutory Address 1:: MAUD FOSTER SLUICE, WINDSOR BANK

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:: MAUD FOSTER SLUICE, WINDSOR BANK

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Boston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TF 33538 43074

Details

BOSTON

TF3344SE WINDSOR BANK 716-1/16/244 (South side) 21/01/87 Maud Foster Sluice

II

Sluice on the Maud Foster Drain. 1807 by John Rennie with later minor C20 alterations. Gritstone sahlar, iron and wood. Sluice with 3 elliptical archways, 2 projecting faceted piers to each side, coped parapet walls, with band. To both sides are sloping splayed retaining walls with returns. The iron bound timber sluice gates are retained and operational by a gantry-mounted pulley system. The piers are support to later access walkways and the parapet walls are surmounted by later steel balustrading. The sluice was constructed as part of a comprehensive scheme to reclaim the East, West, and Wildmore Fens, between 1803 and 1813. (Bagley GS: Boston, Its Storey and People: Boston: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TF3353843074

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Legacy System number:: 486535
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Bagley, G S, Boston and its People, (1986)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.