Trent and Mersey Canal House and Attached Warehouse
TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HOUSE AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 464, CREWE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320227
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal House and Attached Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HOUSE AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 464, CREWE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320227
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Trent and Mersey Canal House and Attached Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HOUSE AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 464, CREWE ROAD
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:
- TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL HOUSE AND ATTACHED WAREHOUSE, 464, CREWE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandbach
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75091 59234
Details
SANDBACH TRENT AND MERSEY SJ 75 NE CANAL (south side) 918- /5/10003 House and Attached Warehouse at 464 Crewe Road/Wheelock Wharf GV II
House and attached warehouse. Built in 4 separate stages; late C18 and early-mid C19. Red brick and painted brick with slate roofs and plain tile roof to main warehouse section. House has 3 storeys plus cellar and fronts onto Crewe Road. Central entrance with one window to either side. Those to ground and 1st floors have splayed stone segmental arched lintels. C20 door. Segmental headed entrance and window level with canal towpath to left side gable end/cellar. Short wing continuous with 3-storey warehouse to rear, alongside canal. Main section, built in 2 stages, has two 2-storey loading bays with segmental headed openings to canal side elevation. Window openings to either side to each storey to central (original) section (that to left of ground floor is bricked up). Those to ground and 1st floors have segmental arched lintels. Unusually there is a chimney stack (left side ridge), probably an early an early addition. Gable end section to left side with lower pitched roof probably added around mid C19. Segmental headed loading door to left of 1st floor. Segmental headed openings to ground and 1st floors. Formerly with large segmental headed loading door to gable end (now bricked up and replaced by late C20 ground floor garage door opening). Wooden plank doors. Windows boarded up or with late C20 panes. Dentillated eaves bands to warehouse and house. Part of a group of early canal buildings built around Wheelock Wharf. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966) Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)
Listing NGR: SJ7509159234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lindsay, J, The Trent and Mersey Canal, (1979)
Hadfield, C, The Canals of the British Isles in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)
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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