Coventry Canal, Atherstone Top Lock And Basin Below To North West is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1988. Canal lock, basin.
Coventry Canal, Atherstone Top Lock And Basin Below To North West
- WRENN ID
- inner-mortar-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Warwickshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1988
- Type
- Canal lock, basin
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ATHERSTONE COVENTRY CANAL SP3097 9/34 Atherstone Top Lock and basin below to north west GV II Canal lock and basin. 1780s, with later repairs. English bond brick with coping of large sandstone blocks. End wall to right of lock has large quoins. Some parts of coping replaced with concrete blocks. Basin retaining walls are also in part of large sandstone blocks. Drained at time of survey. Single and double lock gates. The section of the Coventry Canal from Atherstone to Fazeley was completed by 1790. (H.R. Hodgkinson: Notes on the History of Midland Waterways, p83; Transactions of the Birminghan Archaeological Society, 1913, Vol 89)
Listing NGR: SP3056897539
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