Navigation Inn and Attached Warehouse
NAVIGATION INN AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054272
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Navigation Inn and Attached Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- NAVIGATION INN AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054272
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Navigation Inn and Attached Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NAVIGATION INN AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
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:
- NAVIGATION INN AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 31368 25027
Details
SJ 32 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. MAESBURY MARSH
6/187 Navigation Inn and attached warehouse
GV II
Inn and attached warehouse. Circa 1796 with later additions and alterations. Red brick, rendered and painted to front, pantile roof with two C19 purplish red brick ridge stacks to inn. L-plan with warehouse flanking canal. 2 storeys, dentilled eaves cornice; inn to left has angled north end with panelled double doors under C20 porch, large fixed-light windows to left and right with C20 gabled dormer breaking eaves; road front has C19 casements to left and right of C20 door under gabled timber porch, those to ground floor with segmental heads. Warehouse: attached to right has segmental-headed doorway and two C19 casements directly below eaves to left and right (as on inn); segmental-headed doorways on ground and first floors on canal side (former now blocked). This section of the Ellesmere Canal, opened in 1796 to link with the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa, was used to transport limestone from the quarries at Llanymynech and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Included for group value. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966), p. 170.
Listing NGR: SJ3136825027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 170
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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