Lock House
LOCK HOUSE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180172
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lock House
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK HOUSE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180172
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK HOUSE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH
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:
- LOCK HOUSE, SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL LLANGOLLEN BRANCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 52346 42872
Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SJ 54 SW SJ 5234 4287 Llangollen Branch (north- west side) 1/125 No. 1 (Lock House) - - II
Lock keeper's cottage. Circa 1805. Thomas Telford, engineer. Painted brick with hipped slate roof. Cruciform plan; front arm with bowed end. 2 storeys. Paired pilaster strips, pilaster strips flanking central bow, deep eaves and central brick ridge stack. 1:2:1 bays. Bow with pair of first-floor segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements and pair of ground-floor segmental-headed horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes. Segmental-headed 6-panelled door on left-hand bay. One- storey lean-to to semi-circular loggia with 6-bay colonnade consisting of octagonal wooden posts with plain pedestals and capitals. One-bay return front with segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements. Interior not inspected. The cottage is adjacent to the Grindley Brook Locks (not included on this list) on the Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1st edn. 1966), pp. 166-183; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, pp. 19-22.
Listing NGR: SJ5234642872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, E, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, (1975), 19-22
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 166-183
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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