Canal Warehouse
CANAL WAREHOUSE, LEICESTER ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076584
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL WAREHOUSE, LEICESTER ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076584
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL WAREHOUSE, LEICESTER ROW
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:
- CANAL WAREHOUSE, LEICESTER ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 33338 79601
Details
SP 37 NW 17/11
LEICESTER ROW
Canal Warehouse
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Canal Warehouse. 1787, C19 and 1914. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. One to four
storeys.
Extensive frontage following Leicester Row, with four different roof heights. Dentil eaves cornice. Elevation to Leicester Row from left to right. The first section has two altered basket arched openings and a segmental arched window to ground floor. The upper floors have two pairs of giant round-arched panels containing three tiers of horizontal strip windows and round-arched windows above. Then a gabled bay with keyed segmental arched entrance and keyed lunette window. Slightly lower section to the right has a large segmental arched entrance flanked by smaller segmental arched entrances. Three segmental arched windows above and above again, and five round-arched windows above. All have iron casements. Lower section to right has two tiers of segmental arched windows and lunette windows above, divided into groups of 3-6-3 by large segmental arched entrances. Lower range to right again has repeated tripartite motif of segmental arched entrances flanked by blind half segmental arches.
The rear elevation gives onto the canal basin. The elevation at the time of inspection was under scaffold and in the process of being renovated. Projecting canopy continuing the pitch of the main roof. Various basket arched doorways and windows.
The Warehouse flanks the canal basin of the Coventry Canal Navigation which was completed in 1769 by James Brindley.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 March 2019.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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