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Latitude: 54.037 / 54°2'13"N
Longitude: -2.0858 / 2°5'8"W
OS Eastings: 394480
OS Northings: 460119
OS Grid: SD944601
Mapcode National: GBR FPWR.7L
Mapcode Global: WHB6T.XSYJ
Plus Code: 9C6V2WP7+RM
Entry Name: Wave Wall, Water Ladder, and Attached Buildings
Listing Date: 11 January 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1281534
English Heritage Legacy ID: 382302
ID on this website: 101281534
Location: North Yorkshire, BD23
County: North Yorkshire
District: Craven
Civil Parish: Hetton-cum-Bordley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: Wall
FLASBY WITH WINTERBURN
HETTON
SD96SW WINTERBURN RESERVOIR
1298- /1/10000 Wave wall, water-ladder,
and attached buildings
II
Wave wall with valve tower and bridge, water-ladder, low level outlet, weir and gauging
house. c1885-1893 by Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter, Civil Engineers of Leeds. Wave wall
running east-west is c 175m long with an average height of 1 3m. Constructed of
rock-faced, coursed stone with ashlar copings rising to a point. Wall incorporates a built out
valve tower with two cast iron valve capstans. At east end of wall is a twin-arched bridge
with rusticated abutments, central pier and voussoirs to arches. Returns to south each have
a Gibbsian niche with rusticated quoins set in ashlar walling. End piers are rusticated with
pyramidal caps. Bridge parapets are rock-faced above an ashlar string. Bridge crosses spillway
which includes to north a semi-circular, stepped weir and to south a grand water-ladder
stepping down reservoir dam on a curving plan. Water-ladder is c70 m long, ashlar paved
and stepped, and walled with rock-faced stonework with crow-stepped copings. Walling
includes a pair of intermediate piers and a pair of end piers, both rusticated, with pyramidal
caps. Adjoining at south-west comer, a low-level valve tower outlet of stone with a
rusticated Gibbsian circular portal. To south linked by low stone walling, a stone control
weir and a gauging house on a plinth; a square, rock-faced building with a pyramidal slate
roof, a single chimney stack and rectangular windows. An unusual and outstanding example
of a canal reservoir being given architectural treatment. Built to serve the Leeds and
Liverpool Canal. (Part lies in Hetton civil parish).
Listing NGR: SD9448060119
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