Official list entry
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1097037
Date first listed: 12-Feb-1987
List Entry Name: THE TURF LOCK
Statutory Address 1: THE TURF LOCK
Location
Statutory Address: THE TURF LOCK
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish: Exminster
National Grid Reference: SX 96372 86041
Details
Ship canal lock between the Exeter Canal and the Exe estuary. 1825 by James Green, C20 repair. The lock buttresses and walling of grey limestone ashlar, pair of timber lock gates. In 1825 the Exeter Canal was extended south to Turf Reach and Turf Lock was built at the new entrance. James Green, the engineer, was Surveyor of Bridges and Buildings for Devon 1818-1841. The construction of the lock posed a number of technical problems. "Mr. Telford, who saw the work in progress, declared he had never seen so troublesome a foundation" and he "highly approved" of the methods adopted to overcome the difficulties. "Memoir of the Canal of Exeter", "Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers" (1845), quoted in A. Rudimentary Treatise on Foundations and Concrete Works by E. Dobson (1850), p27.
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