Waterways Museum
WATERWAYS MUSEUM, GRAND UNION CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294154
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Waterways Museum
- Statutory Address:
- WATERWAYS MUSEUM, GRAND UNION CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1294154
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Waterways Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERWAYS MUSEUM, GRAND UNION CANAL
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:
- WATERWAYS MUSEUM, GRAND UNION CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Bruerne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 74347 49913
Details
SP 7448 STOKE BRUERNE GRAND UNION CANAL (East side) 13/170 Waterways Museum
GV II
Warehouse, now museum. Early C19, altered C20. Coursed squared limestone, C20 ridged tile roof. 3-storey, 2-window range. Doorway to left of centre with segmental-arched head, similar openings above to 1st and 2nd floors. 2-light casement windows with wood lintels and iron bars. C20 single-storey extension for museum shop to left. Formerly part of a mill complex. The mill engine house and tall chimney stood on site now partly occupied by museum shop; demolished before 1st World War. (K. Falconer: Guide to Englands' Industrial Heritage, 1980, p170; Waterways Museum Guide Book (no date), pp2-3)
Listing NGR: SP7434749913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Falconer, K, Guide to Englands Industrial Heritage, (1980), 170
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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