FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274427
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL
Statutory Address:: FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274427
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL

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.

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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:: FORMER HARBOURMASTER'S HOUSE ON OLD DOCK AT WESTERN END OF GLOUCESTER SHARPNESS CANAL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Hinton
National Grid Reference:: SO 66837 03089

Details

SO 60 SE HINTON SHARPNESS at NGR 66840308

1/250 Former Harbourmaster's House on Old Dock at western end of Gloucester-Sharpness Canal

II

Former Harbourmasters' House, detached. Early C19, possibly designed by Robert Mylne, first principal engineer to the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company. Rendered, bitumenised hipped slate roof, 2 rebuilt brick stacks at rear. Square 2-storey range, with single storey C20 addition to left not of special interest. 3 windows, 16/12/16-pane sashes in plain reveals. Two 16-pane sashes on ground floor with central projecting portico with 2 square corner piers, 2 fluted Doric columns widely spaced, and shallow pediment with simple moulded edge. Doorcase behind has moulded frame and flush panel door (original panelled door may be beneath). This house, on the westernmost end of the Old Dock (probably designed by Thomas Telford), forms part of a series of buildings on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal designed with the classical Doric portico motif.

Listing NGR: SO6683703089

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Legacy System number:: 415286
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.