Cottage With Attached Lobby, Walled Yards and Wash House at Atherstone Lock Number 5 Coventry Canal
COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED LOBBY, WALLED YARDS AND WASH HOUSE AT ATHERSTONE LOCK NUMBER 5 COVENTRY CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262618
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage With Attached Lobby, Walled Yards and Wash House at Atherstone Lock Number 5 Coventry Canal
- Statutory Address:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED LOBBY, WALLED YARDS AND WASH HOUSE AT ATHERSTONE LOCK NUMBER 5 COVENTRY CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262618
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage With Attached Lobby, Walled Yards and Wash House at Atherstone Lock Number 5 Coventry Canal
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED LOBBY, WALLED YARDS AND WASH HOUSE AT ATHERSTONE LOCK NUMBER 5 COVENTRY CANAL
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:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED LOBBY, WALLED YARDS AND WASH HOUSE AT ATHERSTONE LOCK NUMBER 5 COVENTRY CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Atherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 30314 98041
Details
The following Buildings shall be added:-
ATHERSTONE COVENTRY CANAL SP 39 NW 2/10002 Cottage with attached lobby, walled yards and wash house at Atherstone Lock No 5 GV II Lock cottage, now pair of cottages. Built for Coventry Canal CO. L C18 or C19 extended in mid C19. Painted brick. Slate roof with gable stack and ridge stack. Rear extension with gable stack. Dentilled cornice and gables. Canal front: 3 bays, 2 storeys. Central doorway with cambered arch to through passage dividing dwellings. To left of doorway a 3-light central opening casement with cambered arch. To right, a smaller 3-light casement followed by a 3-light central opening casement, both with cambered arches. Above, a range of 3, 3- light central opening casements with flat arches. Mid C19 front extension consists of bay to right of ridge stack. Adjoining is a lock-keeper's lobby: mid C19, brindled brick with plain tile roof, ridge stack and gable stack. Doorway with stone lintel and plank door, flanked by single windows with stone lintels and sills and C20 casements. Lobby and cottage both have adjoining mid C19 walls with basket-arched doorways giving into small yards, that to left of cottage with attached wash-house. A rare example of a Canal Co. cottage with surviving yards and outbuildings.
Listing NGR: SP3031498041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434562
- 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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