Trent and Mersey Canal, House and Attached Canal Office
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, HOUSE AND ATTACHED CANAL OFFICE, CANAL TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229629
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, House and Attached Canal Office
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, HOUSE AND ATTACHED CANAL OFFICE, CANAL TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229629
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal, House and Attached Canal Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, HOUSE AND ATTACHED CANAL OFFICE, CANAL TERRACE
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:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL, HOUSE AND ATTACHED CANAL OFFICE, CANAL TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middlewich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70651 65885
Details
MIDDLEWICH C.P. TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL SJ 76 NW of Canal Terrace 2/54 House and attached Canal Office - - II
House and office, circa 1820 extended circa 1840. English garden wall bond and Flemish bond brickwork with graded grey slate roof to office and grey slate roof to house. House of 2 storeys and 3 windows. The central and left bay are circa 1840 of redder brick in Flemish bond. Replaced door with radial bar fanlight in ornate flat-roofed porch of cast iron with 6-pane casement and 6-pane French window to right and 6-pane French window to left; three 6-pane casements to upper storey. Flush gable chimney left; ridge chimney between central and right bay. The right bay, circa 1820, was built with the office of 1 storey and 2 windows: round-arched passage at junction with house, with carved head as keystone; two 3-light small-pane casements under gauged brick cambered arches; no cills; right gable-end (overlooking towpath and canal) has pretty gabled oriel window with round cast-iron mullions, on large shaped red sandstone corbel, and ornate fretted bargeboards. Interior of office has round-arched doorway between rooms. Interior of house not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ7065165885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56385
- 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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