Trent And Mersey Canal, Three Locks And Two Intermediate Basins, With Dry Dock Off Upper Basin is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1986. Canal structures. 1 related planning application.
Trent And Mersey Canal, Three Locks And Two Intermediate Basins, With Dry Dock Off Upper Basin
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-rubble-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1986
- Type
- Canal structures
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MIDDLEWICH C.P. TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SJ 76 NW (at Brooks Lane) 2/53 3 locks and 2 intermediate Basins, with Dry Dock off Upper Basin - GV II
3 locks and 2 linking basins, 1777, of stone and brick. Locks have walls of brick and stone with inset posts of oak, paired lower gates and single upper gates of timber and wooden footbridges, without handrails, on wrought-iron arched supports. Stone-walled basin between each pair of locks with sides curved in plan to allow width for passing of boats. The lower lock has mid C20 stepped concrete retaining wall to bank of adjacent Sanderson's Brook. The upper 2 locks have curved flights of stone steps. Dry dock, probably late C18, altered. Brick basin; entrance from canal basin replaced in concrete. The dock, still in use, is sheltered by a late C20 shed of lightweight dry construction.
Listing NGR: SJ7073566058
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