Former Lock Keeper's Cottage Approximately 100 Metres South of New Marton Bridge
FORMER LOCK KEEPER'S COTTAGE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH OF NEW MARTON BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054230
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lock Keeper's Cottage Approximately 100 Metres South of New Marton Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LOCK KEEPER'S COTTAGE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH OF NEW MARTON BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054230
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lock Keeper's Cottage Approximately 100 Metres South of New Marton Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LOCK KEEPER'S COTTAGE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH OF NEW MARTON BRIDGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LOCK KEEPER'S COTTAGE APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH OF NEW MARTON BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selattyn and Gobowen
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32870 34765
Details
SELATTYN AND GOBOWEN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 33 SW (west side) 5/48 Former lock-keeper's cottage approx. l00m south of New Marton Bridge II Lock-keeper's cottage, now house. Circa 1801 with later additions and alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Painted brick; hipped slate roof. Square plan. 2 storeys. 2-window front with plain pilaster strips to angles and centre; C19 casements,directly below eaves to first floor and with segmental heads to ground floor, right infilled and with mid-C20 casement inserted. Entrance through gabled porch with boarded door to left wall; central red brick ridge stack with moulded capping. This section of the former Ellesmere Canal was completed c.1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. New Marton Bridge is not included in this list. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985) p.173.
Listing NGR: SJ3287034765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 173
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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