NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE

NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE, GRAND UNION CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191780
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE, GRAND UNION CANAL

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Date:: 2003-09-27
Reference:: IOE01/11419/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191780
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE, GRAND UNION CANAL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NORTHAMPTON TOP LOCK COTTAGE, GRAND UNION CANAL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rothersthorpe
National Grid Reference:: SP7226156043

Details

ROTHERSTHORPE GRAND UNION CANAL (N. ARM) SP75NW 5/172 Northanpton Top Lock Cottage 09/07/87

GV II

Lock-keepers cottage. c.1815. Painted brick, hipped slate roof, C20 brick lateral stacks. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Central C20 part-glazed door with segmental-arched head, flanked by canted bay windows. 2-light sliding casement windows to 1st floor. Central bay breaks forward slightly. Deep overhanging eaves. Single-storey extension to left. interior not inspected. Stands at head of a flight of locks on Northampton arm of Grand Union Canal.

Listing NGR: SP7226256042

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Legacy System number:: 234803
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.