Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
16737
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/02/1996  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Bank Lock  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Bank  
Easting
326022  
Northing
312917  
Street Side
 
Location
Immediately S of the bridge that carries Coppice Lane over the Montgomeryshire Canal, E of Bank Farm, 4km approx N of Welshpool  

Description


Broad Class
Transport  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: The Montgomeryshire Canal was built as far as Garthmyl between 1794-7, engineered by John and Thomas Dadford. Between 1819 and 1831, G.W.Buck was engineer to the Montgomeryshire Canal Eastern Branch, and introduced a distinctive system of lock ground-sluice control in 1831: these remain in situ at this lock. In the 1880's and 1890's, an extensive programme of repair was carried out by the Shropshire Union Canal and Railway Company, and it is likely that while the lock was part of the early engineering of the canal, it was substantially repaired or rebuilt in the later C19. Description: Blue brick lined chamber with stone copings and timber gates. Cast-iron ground-sluice controls. There is a small blue brick hut on either side of the lock; curved red- brick retaining wall to platform above falling tow-path level to NE of lock. A good, well-preserved example of a typical Montgomeryshire Canal lock. Reference: Stephen Hughes, The Archaeology of the Montgomeryshire Canal, 1988, p24-5.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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