British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, Shropshire Union Canal (South-east Side) (Llangollen Branch) Timber Store (Pine Loft) British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot
BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (SOUTH EAST SIDE) (LLANGOLLEN BRANCH), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1055924
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, Shropshire Union Canal (South-east Side) (Llangollen Branch) Timber Store (Pine Loft) British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot
- Statutory Address:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (SOUTH EAST SIDE) (LLANGOLLEN BRANCH), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1055924
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, Shropshire Union Canal (South-east Side) (Llangollen Branch) Timber Store (Pine Loft) British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (SOUTH EAST SIDE) (LLANGOLLEN BRANCH), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
- Statutory Address 2:
- TIMBER STORE (PINE LOFT) BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT
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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:
- BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (SOUTH EAST SIDE) (LLANGOLLEN BRANCH), SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
- Statutory Address:
- TIMBER STORE (PINE LOFT) BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellesmere Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40066 34180
Details
1585/18/94
ELLESMERE RURAL
BIRCH TIMBER STORE (PINE LOFT) BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL BIRCH BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD CANAL MAINTENANCE DEPOT, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL (SOUTH EAST SIDE) (LLANGOLLEN BRANCH)
17-SEP-02
GV
II*
Timber store. Circa 1806 adjoining William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Sandstone ashlar, with front of weatherboarded timber frame and brick bay to right; hipped asbestos sheet roof.
Two levels with wooden dentilled eaves cornice. Three windows on first floor, C19 three-light casements to left and right with C20 three-light casement to centre. Open to ground floor in four bays with wooden posts supporting upper level. Later C19 single storey sawshop range projecting from and closing right bay, with sliding doors to front and glazed sides. Early C20 lean-to to left, with three half-glazed sliding doors. Brick bay to right formerly housed steam engine.
Interior: king-post roof; belt-drive gearing in loft. Tracks leading from building formerly took coal trucks to steam-powered engine in open ground-floor area of building. This had been adapted from a locomotive engine, the cylinder and piston being mounted vertically, and generated power for working the machinery in the depot.
This building survives as an important functional part of the best-preserved canal workshop site in Britain. It was very probably built to the designs of Telford and Jessop, canal engineers being traditionally responsible for a wide range of structures from the trim (lettering and mileposts) to locks and keepers' houses. All canal companies had maintenance yards for work on boats, locks, paddle gearing and other aspects of the working fabric of inland waterways.
(Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), p.53)
SJ4006634181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 53
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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