Ashton Canal Lock Keepers Cottage Beside Lock Number 2 at Islington Branch Junction Basin
ASHTON CANAL LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE BESIDE LOCK NUMBER 2 AT ISLINGTON BRANCH JUNCTION BASIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279636
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Canal Lock Keepers Cottage Beside Lock Number 2 at Islington Branch Junction Basin
- Statutory Address:
- ASHTON CANAL LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE BESIDE LOCK NUMBER 2 AT ISLINGTON BRANCH JUNCTION BASIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279636
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Canal Lock Keepers Cottage Beside Lock Number 2 at Islington Branch Junction Basin
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHTON CANAL LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE BESIDE LOCK NUMBER 2 AT ISLINGTON BRANCH JUNCTION BASIN
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:
- ASHTON CANAL LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE BESIDE LOCK NUMBER 2 AT ISLINGTON BRANCH JUNCTION BASIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85368 98227
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 ASHTON CANAL, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/17/508 Lock-keeper's cottage beside Lock No.2 at Islington Branch junction basin
GV II
Lock-keeper's cottage. c.1800, altered. Brown brick in English garden wall bond, slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan, plus small extension at right-hand corner. Basement and 2 storeys (on sloped site, 3 storeys at rear), a 3-window range; doorway to left of 3rd window, with altered door and painted lintel; windows with raised stone sills and altered glazing, those at ground floor segmental-headed; single-storey lean-to addition at right-hand end. Ridge chimney between 1st and 2nd windows, gable chimney to the right. Right-hand return wall has segmental-headed basement doorway beside lean-to; lower part of rear corner at this end is slightly chamfered and has stone quoin reinforcement against chafing of tow-ropes (tow-path passing round building from lock to bridge); rear has segmental-headed basement doorway near this corner, and 2 widely-spaced windows on each floor. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Lock No.[2] to east (q.v.) and Towpath Bridge over Islington Branch to west (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8536898227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387890
- 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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