South Warehouse to Rear of Wharf Masters House at Manchester Road Canal Wharf
SOUTH WAREHOUSE TO REAR OF WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244894
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- South Warehouse to Rear of Wharf Masters House at Manchester Road Canal Wharf
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH WAREHOUSE TO REAR OF WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244894
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- South Warehouse to Rear of Wharf Masters House at Manchester Road Canal Wharf
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH WAREHOUSE TO REAR OF WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, MANCHESTER ROAD
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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:
- SOUTH WAREHOUSE TO REAR OF WHARF MASTERS HOUSE AT MANCHESTER ROAD CANAL WHARF, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83870 32283
Details
BURNLEY
SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/93 (West side) 16/08/77 South warehouse to rear of Wharf Master's House at Manchester Road canal wharf (Formerly Listed as: MANCHESTER ROAD 3 warehouses to rear of No.85)
GV II
Canal warehouse with integral cottage, now store. c1796-1800 in 2 builds, for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company, slightly altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan parallel to canal, with the former cottage at the right-hand (south) end. 2 storeys and 5 windows, with a vertical joint at about two-thirds of the distance from the south end. Each portion has a superimposed pair of wide segmental-headed loading doorways (one slightly offset left of centre and the other at the left end), all with long-and-short quoined jambs, plain voussoirs and double board doors, and those in the centre with remains of wooden staging to the upper doorway; and to the left of this pair of doorways are the iron footing and jib-head of a former crane, the wall at ground floor coved inwards for the former counter-weight. Both portions have 3-light mullioned windows with flat-faced flush mullions: a pair on each floor flanking the centre loading doorways, and one on each floor to the right of the other doorways. The former cottage at the right-hand end has a late C19 2-storey canted bay window, a tall doorway to the left of this with altered door and overlight, and a window above. The rear (to the yard) has a full-length stone platform to the ground floor, loading doorways corresponding to those on the canal side (both with C20 staging), and two 3-light mullioned windows (but the cottage portion has been rendered and altered). INTERIORS not inspected. Forms group with Wharf Master's House and Toll Office attached at south end (qv), the 2 warehouses added at the north end (qv), the stable block on the east side of the yard (qv), and with Manchester Road Canal Bridge (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8387032283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467117
- 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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