Shropshire Union Canal Roving Bridge House
SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL ROVING BRIDGE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237205
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal Roving Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL ROVING BRIDGE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237205
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shropshire Union Canal Roving Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL ROVING BRIDGE 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:
- SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL ROVING BRIDGE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whixall
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48918 35195
Details
WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION SJ 43 NE CANAL (south side) 1/206 Roving Bridge - House - II Toll keeper's cottage, now farmhouse. Circa 1800 on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick (English bond); pyramidal graded slate roof with wide spreading eaves and central red brick stack with ceramic chimney pots. Square plan. 2 storeys to canal side plus semi-basement to rear. Blind roundels to first floor flanking C19 casement directly below eaves; ground floor has segmental-headed horizontal sliding sash to left and C19 casement to right of original gabled brick porch with boarded door and semi- circular fanlight. Interior: semi-basement has exposed ceiling joists and 3 round-headed doorways with original plank doors. Situated at the junction between the main line of the former Ellesmere Canal and its Prees branch. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985), pp.177, 331.
Listing NGR: SJ4891835195
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428419
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the West Midlands, (1985), 177,331
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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