Marple Locks Number 4 And Adjoining Footbridge On Peak Forest Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stockport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Lock and footbridge.
Marple Locks Number 4 And Adjoining Footbridge On Peak Forest Canal
- WRENN ID
- burning-gargoyle-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockport
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Lock and footbridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 98 NE MARPLE PEAK FOREST CANAL
7/132 Marple Locks No. 4 and adjoining - footbridge
G.V. II
Lock and adjoining footbridge. 1803 to 1805. Benjamin Outram and Thomas Brown engineers, financed by S. Oldknow and R. Arkwright and built by James and Fox. Dressed stone and ashlar. Single upper gate, double lower gate and footbridge at lower end. 4m. pound-to-pound level to accommodate steepness of slope. Lock walls in large coursed stone blocks with rounded verge. The mouth is grooved for stop planks. The gates have been overhauled and are fully functional. The footbridge has a segmental rusticated keystone arch, an ashlar band and parapet walls with rounded copings which are terminates in battered square piers.
Listing NGR: SJ9607989719
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