LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396413
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR CANAL
Statutory Address:: LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396413
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-2004
List Entry Name:: LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOCK 4 AT TF 050988, CAISTOR CANAL

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: South Kelsey
National Grid Reference:: TF0501198701

Details

359/0/10005 02-APR-04

SOUTH KELSEY Lock 4 at TF 050988, Caistor Canal

II

Canal lock. c.1793-5. Ashlar in fine large blocks. Cast-iron fittings. The lock chamber is approx. 14 feet wide and 60 feet long (probably built to take Humber Keels, the usual type of boat used on the waterways connecting with the Humber). There are recesses for paddles in the lock sides within the upper gate recesses, with tunnels to take the water around the gates into the chamber. There are no corresponding tunnels at the lower end, the paddles probably being in the missing gates. There are cast-iron brackets at the top of each of the lock pivots, set into the top of the stonework. Some of the square iron surrounds to the tunnel entrances, against which the paddles would have rubbed, survive. A C20 vehicle bridge spans the chamber but this is not of special architectural interest.

HISTORY. The Caistor Canal was built under an Act of Parliament of 1793 following the survey of the engineer William Jessop in 1792. It was disused by 1877. It ran from the River Ancholme Navigation eastward towards the town of Caistor, but only about half was constructed and it reached to the village of Moortown, a distance of about 4.5 miles. C19 OS maps show six locks. The highest of these, near the basin at Moortown, had totally disappeared by the 1960's together with any other remains of a wharf, basin, or buildings there might once have been at the village end. However the other five locks survive and are complete except for gates and paddle gear. The whole series of these locks and bridge is a significant survival of C18 canal engineering and displays an impressive quality of construction.

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Legacy System number:: 501254
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.