LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276919
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address:: LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276919
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: LOCK WALLS AND BASIN WALL AT ENTRANCE OF SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOUTH OF BASIN AT WEST OF DUNDAS AQUEDUCT

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District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Monkton Combe
National Grid Reference:: ST 78364 62491

Details

5120

ST 76 SE MONKTON COMBE

SP 833 Lock walls and basin wall at entrance of Somersetshire Coal Canal south of basin at West of Dundas Aqueduct.

GV II

Former entrance lock and basin wall. Early C19, canal construction began 1801. The Surveyor for the Coal Canal Company was William Smith, 'Father of British Geology'. Ashlar. About 20 metres long, 2.5 metres wide, former entrance lock, shorn of gates, 3 deep courses to water level, cap stones deeply traffic worn, gate recesses and to east 3 inserted deeper recesses visible; at south end the east wall sweeps round and then continues as basin wall, now capped with C20 timbers, for a further 50 metres. Canal closed in 1904 and lock was back filled, re-excavated 1985 for use as a marina for craft using Kennet and Avon Canal.

Listing NGR: ST7836462491

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Legacy System number:: 408167
Legacy System:: LBS

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