LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE

LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194965
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1970
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1194965
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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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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Statutory Address:: LANCASTER CANAL OLD BOATHOUSE ON EAST SIDE OF CANAL APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES WEST OF BASIN BRIDGE, ALDCLIFFE ROAD

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47450 60979

Details

LANCASTER

SD46SE ALDCLIFFE ROAD 1685-1/1/3 (East side (off)) 30/11/70 Old Boathouse on east side of Canal, approx. 100m west of Basin Bridge (Formerly Listed as: GENERAL Old Boathouse on Canal at Aldcliffe Road Basin)

GV II

Boathouse and repair workshop, now roofless. c1833, repaired and consolidated c1991. For the Lancaster Canal Company. Roughly coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Basically rectangular plan. 2 storeys and 7 bays, built at right angles to the canal around a narrow basin (now silted up). The bay nearest to the canal is splayed outwards to the left to facilitate the passage of boats through a wide full-height entry, off-set to the left. In both side walls the ground-floor openings are irregular, but the 1st floors have 7 windows, which originally had 42 panes. Both floors of the left-hand side wall have, in the middle bay, a doorway with a recess for a sliding door. Between the storeys in each side wall is a row of 13 narrow slots, through which beams were inserted to support boats and a working platform during repairs. HISTORY: built for the accommodation and repair of the fast packet boats 'Waterwitch' and 'Swiftsure', which were supplemented in 1835 by 'Swallow' and in 1839 by 'Crewdson'. These operated a service between Preston and Kendal (57 miles in seven and a quarter hours) from 1833 to 1842, and from Lancaster to Kendal until 1846, in competition with the stage coach. This item is a unique feature of the Lancaster Canal. (Lancaster City Museums Local Studies: White A: Fast Packet Boats on the Lancaster Canal: Lancaster).

Listing NGR: SD4745060979

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Legacy System number:: 383032
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Sources

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White, A, 'Lancaster City Museums Local Studies' in Fast Packet Boats On The Lancaster Canal, ()

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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.