Description

WATTON-AT-STONE WOODHALL PARK
TL 31 NW
4/212 Cascade, Weir and Sluice
- on River Beane about
30m N of Drive
GV II

Weir with sluice channelling River Beane onto cascade facing approach drive to
Woodhall Park (q.v.). c.1780 by W Malcolm as part of landscaping of Park for
Sir T Rumbold. Cascade face is irregular brick and stone with stepped setts on one
side, overgrown and ruinous. Flanking low stock brick walls canted out to tumbling
bay with gutter to left for sluiced water. Similar and lower canted stock brick
walls upstream channel water over rendered weir, a central opening channels water
into sluice. On weir are 2 panelled piers with pedimented heads dated 1933
supporting timber framework with a handle to gear mechanism to open and shut
sluice gates.

Listing NGR: TL3136418277

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381492

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)