Wash House Lock

WASH HOUSE LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1395967
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
Statutory Address:
WASH HOUSE LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1395967
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
Statutory Address 1:
WASH HOUSE LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

Location

Statutory Address:
WASH HOUSE LOCK, KENNET AND AVON CANAL

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

District:
Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
ST 75642 64296

Details

KENNET AND AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0 Wash House Lock 11/08/72

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Canal lock. c1800, restored 1971. John Rennie, Engineer. Brick-lined basin with two-course heavy sandstone flush rounded coping, splayed at upper end, splayed and ramped down to east at lower end, to west wall continues down with steep coped ramp, then returns at right angles to canal wall. Bridge crosses lower end (qv). Two pairs of timber gates, and cast iron winch gear at upper end. The Kennet and Avon Canal was opened throughout in 1810. SOURCES: (Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 27; Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England: Georgian Bath Historical Map: Southampton: 1989-).

Listing NGR: ST7564264296

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511376
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