LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE

LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE, 42, THE GOSS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279272
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE, 42, THE GOSS

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Date:: 1999-11-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279272
Date first listed:: 28-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE, 42, THE GOSS

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:: LOCK KEEPER'S HOUSE, 42, THE GOSS

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

District:: Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 91954 86490

Details

1. THE GOSS 5106 Brierley Hill 4/1 No 42 (Lock-Keeper's House II

2. Lock-Keeper's house. 1779 with C19 alterations and addition. Probably based on a standard design by Thomas Dadford, Senior,Surveyor and Engineer to the Dudley Canal Company, to house the keeper of the Delph Locks. Later render on brick. Later tiles to roof: a hip over the canted N.W. end bay which faces the canal, and gables at the S.E. end. Brick ridge stack and gable end stacks. Brick dentil eaves cornice. 2 storeys withCl9 single storey gabled extension at S.E, end. The canted bay at N.W. end has a C19 cross mullion/transom casement with bars on the front. A metal plate above inscribed with the Birmingham Canal Navigation reference number:151. On first floor a horned sash. Probably windows to the canted sides, but now blocked and rendered. Entry on S.W. side in C1930 porch. Windows similar to N.W. bay on N.E. and S.W. sides of house.Interior not inspected. The locks, which were originally close to the house, were replaced in 1858 by locks at 68 metres to N.W. Important as one of the few surviving canal houses of this type.

Listing NGR: SO9195486490

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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.