Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House
BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL JUNCTION HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197040
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House
- Statutory Address:
- BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL JUNCTION HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197040
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL JUNCTION HOUSE
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:
- BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL JUNCTION HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20349 02022
Details
TAMWORTH
SK20SW BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL 670-1/4/27 (North side) 06/05/88 Fazeley Junction House
II
House. c1840. Brick with ashlar and plaster dressings; hipped slate roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with large full-height canted bay. Top cornice. Entrance to right return of bay has doorcase with consoled cornice and 6-fielded-panel door. Windows to ground floor have rusticated wedge lintels with keystones over 12-pane sashes, bay has tripartite window with frieze and cornice over 8:12:8-pane horned sashes; 1st floor has 9-pane sashes with tripartite window to bay with 6:12:6-pane sashes (12-pane=4/8). Iron plate with number: 261 between windows to bay. Cross-axial stack to bay and 2 stacks to rear. Junction House stands at the junction of the Coventry Canal with the Fazeley to Birmingham and Fazeley to Whittington branches of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and may have served as a toll house at this important junction. (Inland Waterways Histories: Broadbridge SR: Birmingham Canal Navigations Vol I: 1768-1846: London: 1974-: P.41-45; Canals of the British Isles: Hadfield C: Canals of the East Midlands: 1966-: P.23-24).
Listing NGR: SK2034902022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386443
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966), 23-4
Broadbridge, S R, Inland Waterways Histories in Birmingham Canal Navigations 1768-1846, Vol. 1, (1974), 41-5
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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