Grand Sluice and Bridge and Lights
GRAND SLUICE AND BRIDGE AND LIGHTS, WITHAM BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389076
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Sluice and Bridge and Lights
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND SLUICE AND BRIDGE AND LIGHTS, WITHAM BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389076
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Sluice and Bridge and Lights
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND SLUICE AND BRIDGE AND LIGHTS, WITHAM BANK
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND SLUICE AND BRIDGE AND LIGHTS, WITHAM 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 32378 44503
Details
BOSTON
TF3244NW WITHAM BANK
716-1/4/248 Grand Sluice, bridge and lights
02/05/86
II
Sluice bridge and lights 1764-66. Altered 1883 and C20. By
John Grundy and Langley Edwards, with alterations by John
Williams. Gritstone, red brick, blue brick, concrete, steel.
Arranged with 3 channels on west and wider channel and lock on
east bank for boats to pass through. On the south/seaward side
the river west wall and 2 cutwaters are the original C18
gritstone. The eastern one has been adapted and partly rebuilt
in 1883 in blue brick. On the north side it has been extended
to form a lock mooring platform. The cutwaters on the north
side have been partly rebuilt in concrete. The seaward doors
are side hung hydraulically operated iron-bound timber doors.
On the landward side the 3 channels have pulley operated drop
doors operated from a steel gantry. The navigable channel has
2 sets of lock gates.
The road bridge is in red brick with 4 segmental arches now
supporting a C20 concrete bridge top with iron railings. At
each corner, diagonally set is a c1930s panelled ashlar pier
with moulded plinth and cornice, bearing openwork painted iron
supports containing 4 elongated decorative pendants supporting
lantern light.
The construction of the grand sluice, which required an Act of
Parliament, resulted in the first major expansion of the town
since the Middle Ages. Beside the eastern bank wall is a stone
bearing this inscription: "Lock opened by Edmund Turner Esq.
on 8th December 1883. John Evelyn Williams engineer, William
Rigby, contractor.".
Listing NGR: TF3237844503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486539
- 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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