Lock 3 at TF 035990, Caistor Canal
LOCK 3 AT TF 035990, CAISTOR CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396412
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Lock 3 at TF 035990, Caistor Canal
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK 3 AT TF 035990, CAISTOR CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396412
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Lock 3 at TF 035990, Caistor Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK 3 AT TF 035990, CAISTOR CANAL
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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:
- LOCK 3 AT TF 035990, 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:
- TF0350698952
Details
359/0/10004
02-APR-04
SOUTH KELSEY
Lock 3 at TF 035990, 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. There is some displacement of the stone blocks due to tree growth with a small area of collapse at the NW corner.
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.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 501253
- 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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