Canal Museum
CANAL MUSEUM, CANAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271308
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Museum
- Statutory Address:
- CANAL MUSEUM, CANAL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271308
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Canal Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANAL MUSEUM, CANAL STREET
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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:
- CANAL MUSEUM, CANAL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57305 39327
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5739SW CANAL STREET 646-1/23/71 (South side) Canal Museum
GV II
Canal warehouse, now canal museum. 1895. For Fellows, Morton & Clayton, canal carriers. Converted 1980-81. Brown brick with blue and yellow brick and terracotta dressings. Slate roofs. Plinth, pilasters, modillion eaves and gables. Windows are cast-iron glazing bar casements, mostly segment-headed. 4 storeys, 4 x 5 bays. Double range, with gabled roofs. The building spans a short canal arm, with internal docking for 2 boats. South front, facing the canal, has to right a segmental arch over the dock, and to left, 2 windows. Above, regular courses of 4 windows, the fourth floor windows round-arched. Above again, a name panel, and 2 gables with round windows. Right return has on the ground floor a full width steel framed canopy covering a loading platform and double sliding doors. Central segment-arched loft doors on each floor, flanked by 2 windows. Rear, to Canal Street, similar to the south front, with 2 ground floor windows and doors. INTERIOR: largely original, has wooden beams and floors carried on cast-iron columns, now with fire resistant coating. King post truss roofs. (Palmer M & Neaverson P: Industrial Landscapes of the East Midlands: Chichester: 1992-: 141; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 248; Interpretation panels in museum).
Listing NGR: SK5730539327
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Palmer, M, Neaverson, P, Industrial Landscapes of the East Midlands, (1992), 141
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 248
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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