Former Canal Company Office, Lock Keepers House and Attached Wall and Railings
FORMER CANAL COMPANY OFFICE, LOCK KEEPERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 18, CANAL WHARF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255693
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Canal Company Office, Lock Keepers House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CANAL COMPANY OFFICE, LOCK KEEPERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 18, CANAL WHARF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255693
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Canal Company Office, Lock Keepers House and Attached Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CANAL COMPANY OFFICE, LOCK KEEPERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 18, CANAL WHARF
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:
- FORMER CANAL COMPANY OFFICE, LOCK KEEPERS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 18, CANAL WHARF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29661 33046
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE CANAL WHARF 714-1/77/80 (West side) 05/08/76 No.18 Former Canal Company office, lock-keeper's house and attached wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: CANAL WHARF No.18 Canal Office)
GV II
Canal company office with forecourt steps, wall and railings, and lock-keeper's house to rear. 1816 for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, the house added after 1847. Office: ashlar, low-pitched hipped slate roof with central corniced ridge stack extended in brick. One storey over basement, central wide panelled door in plain surround with deep cornice hood and carved lettering: 'CANAL OFFICE'. Flanking segmental-arched recesses with tripartite sashes with glazing bars and margin-lights. Corner pilasters, deep eaves cornice, blocking course. Right return: straight flight of steps to Basin Lock (qv). House to rear: red brick, hipped slate roof, central stack, 4-pane sashes. INTERIOR: not seen but reputed to contain original panelled board room to left. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 3 steps project forward of line of railings; wall: 2 courses of rusticated masonry, stepped copings with railings flanking entrance; acorn finials to rails and standards; pedestrian gate far left with dog bars. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably built after the completion of the canal in 1816; not shown on the 1815 map and although the canal from Leeds to Gargrave was completed 1770-77 there was a long delay in the completion through to Liverpool due to a lack of funds. (Fraser D: A History of Modern Leeds: 1980-: 124).
Listing NGR: SE2966133046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465728
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fraser, D, A History of Modern Leeds, (1980), 124
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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