LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE

LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194964
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194964
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BLACKSMITHS SHOP APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47536 61039

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761SE ALDCLIFFE ROAD 1685-1/8/2 (East side (off)) Old Blacksmith's Shop, approximately 30 metres east of Basin Bridge

GV II

Blacksmith's shop and dwelling, now used as a store and office. c1800, extended C19 and restored c1991. Built to service traffic on the canal, for the Lancaster Canal Company. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof, and chimneys on the original gables. Rectangular plan parallel to the towpath, comprising (to the west) a blacksmith's shop with a dwelling house above it and a stable in an extension to the left, and (to the east) a single-storey workshop or waggon house. The western portion has 2 storeys and 3 x 3 bays. The west gable wall has 3 windows on each floor with recent 36-pane top-hung casements and a doorway in the right-hand corner. The front to the towpath has a window to the left and a doorway to the right on the ground floor and 2 windows with a central doorway on the 1st floor, the door approached up a prominent flight of stone steps, rectangular on plan and protected by iron bar railings. The extension contains a wide blocked doorway with concrete lintel: a new window opening was being made at time of survey. The lower eastern portion has 3 windows and a waggon entrance. INTERIOR: upper floor removed except for principal beams; 2 original fireplaces visible on first floor.

Listing NGR: SD4753661039

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Legacy System number:: 383031
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.