Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage

CANAL MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS AND LOCK COTTAGE, ENGINE LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292376
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1971
List Entry Name:
Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage
Statutory Address:
CANAL MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS AND LOCK COTTAGE, ENGINE LANE
User submitted image
Contributed by Selwyn Ray This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
1999-08-22
Reference:
IOE01/01878/19
Rights:
© Mr Philip Williamson. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292376
Date first listed:
09-Nov-1971
List Entry Name:
Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CANAL MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS AND LOCK COTTAGE, ENGINE LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CANAL MAINTENANCE BUILDINGS AND LOCK COTTAGE, ENGINE LANE

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Stourport-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:
SO 81042 71067

Details

STOURPORT ON SEVERN

SO8171SW ENGINE LANE 589-1/9/15 (North East side) Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage

GV II

Canal maintenance building, formerly iron warehouse, and adjoining dwelling. c1776 but extended in early C19. Painted brick with Welsh slate roof. Original warehouse range to north is 2-storeyed, though largely open to roof and with an inserted floor in part of the structure. 3 bays with round-arched central doorway and casement windows with cambered brick heads in north elevation. Curved corner to NW. Coped SE gable with blocked oculus. Extended towards the south circa 1800, in a hipped roofed wing with rounded corners, and wide casement windows in south elevation (one blocked). Early C19 added wing adjoining and parallel with this, probably always in domestic use, has paired windows with flat arched heads. Blocked doorway between the wings, the present doorway in added porch to west. NW elevation of warehouse has giant opening now partly glazed. Dentilled eaves bands throughout. Interior of northern range has king-post roof with 6 trusses radiating from a single pilaster, spanning the full height curved space.

Listing NGR: SO8104271067

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
393322
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.

Ordnance survey map of Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 30-Jun-2026 at 13:00:29.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos