Weir On River Teme Including Attached Sluice, Retaining Walls And Culvert

The weir on the River Teme, including the attached sluice, retaining walls, and culvert, is likely from the 18th century and was extended in 1822 by Thomas Telford, who was the Shropshire County Surveyor. The structure is made of ashlar stone, with dressed stone used for the walls. The weir is approximately fifty metres long and three metres high, featuring an elongated crescent that directs water to the culvert on the western bank. The weir has an ashlar facing with a bullnosed lip, and its downstream face appears to be stepped, with a dressed stone skirt. On the eastern bank, there is a double sluice with a wooden access platform leading to a single surviving cast-iron rack and pinion gate. The eastern wall of the sluice extends as a retaining wall for about twenty metres upstream. At the western end of the weir, there is a stone culvert and retaining wall that extends for approximately twenty metres downstream.