Trent and Mersey Canal Ivy Leigh and Attached Cottages
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL IVY LEIGH AND ATTACHED COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237275
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal Ivy Leigh and Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL IVY LEIGH AND ATTACHED COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237275
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal Ivy Leigh and Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL IVY LEIGH AND ATTACHED COTTAGES
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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 IVY LEIGH AND ATTACHED COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fradley and Streethay
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 14084 14058
Details
SK 11 SW ALREWAS TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL (North side)
3/10005 Fradley Junction Ivy Leigh and attached cottages GV II
Terrace of 3 canal workers' cottages. Red brick with slate roofs. Built in 2 separate stages around the early C19. 2 storey, double pile, fronting onto canal. Single fronted cottage (probably earlier phase) to left. Entrance to left with semicircular headed lintel and fanlight. 12-light sash windows. It has been rebuilt and possibly extended to rear. 2 symmetrical, double-fronted cottages to right. Central entrances (C20 wooden porch to right-hand cottage, Ivy Leigh). 12-light sash windows with stone lintels at ground floor level. 2 ridge chimney stacks and one end stack to right side. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. The cottages form part of a group of early buildings at the junction with the Coventry Canal (passed by Act of Parliament in 1768) and are listed for group value. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)
Listing NGR: SK1408414058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)
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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