WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF

WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, 85 AND 85A, MANCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244891
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF
Statutory Address:: WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, 85 AND 85A, MANCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244891
Date first listed:: 19-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF
Statutory Address 1:: WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, 85 AND 85A, MANCHESTER ROAD

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

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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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Statutory Address:: WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AND TOLL OFFICE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, 85 AND 85A, MANCHESTER ROAD

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 83879 32258

Details

BURNLEY

SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/90 (West side) 19/07/88 Nos.85 AND 85A Wharf Master's House and Toll Office at Manchester Road canal wharf

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Wharf Master's house and attached toll office, now museum. c1850. For Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. Sandstone ashlar, hipped stone slate roofs on 2 levels. Rectangular plan parallel to the street, with the toll office forming a projecting angled wing to the left. EXTERIOR: each has a full basement storey at towpath level. Otherwise, the house presents a 2-storey asymmetrical 2-window facade to the street, with a 1st-floor sillband and paired stone gutter brackets; a central doorway with a bracketed cornice, triangular-headed lintel and recessed door with square overlight; one window above the door and one on each floor to the left (none to the right), all segmental-headed with keystones and altered glazing; and corniced stone chimney stacks on the left and right slopes of the roof (which is gabled to the rear). Its 3-window right-hand return wall has 2 basement windows and a wide entrance to a through-passage at the rear, and on each upper floor a large 2-light window flanked by one-light windows, those to the left sashed but the others altered. The left side wall has a flight of stone steps up to the toll office. The toll office is square except for a splayed rear left corner, presents one storey to the street with a doorway to the right, a window next to this (both detailed like those of the house) and a front-wall chimney to the left; its left side has one 4-pane sash on each floor, and another at ground floor of the splayed corner; and the rear has a doorway at ground floor, a 4-pane sash above this and a 1st-floor doorway to the left (approached by the steps attached to the house). INTERIOR not inspected. Forms part of an important group at this wharf, including 3 warehouses attached to rear of house (qv), boundary wall to yard (qv), stable block on east side of yard (qv), and with Manchester Road Canal Bridge (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8387932258

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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.