BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271546
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK
Statutory Address:: BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271546
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1996
List Entry Name:: BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK
Statutory Address 1:: BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRCHILLS CANAL MUSEUM, FORMER BOATMANS REST, WEST SIDE OF WALSALL TOP LOCK

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District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 00522 99428

Details

SP 0509 9950 WALSALL BIRCHILLS

7/10009 Birchills Canal Museum, former Boatmans Rest, west side of Walsall top lock

GV II

Former Boatmans Rest on the Walsall Canal c1900. Red brick with blue engineering brick plinth and hipped slate roof. Two storey, rectangular. Canalside elevation with segmental headed doorway and window and possibly later bay window, with timber sashes. Upper floor with three pairs of lancet style windows. Rubbed brick voussoirs and continuous hood band. Roof has central louvered ventilator with metal ogee cap. The boatmans rest was one of three in the West Midland canals operated by the Incorporated Seamen and Boatman's Friend Society. The other two have since been demolished.

Listing NGR: SP0052299428

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Legacy System number:: 454413
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.