Island Warehouse
ISLAND WAREHOUSE, DOCKS BASIN
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330390
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Island Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- ISLAND WAREHOUSE, DOCKS BASIN
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
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:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-05-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/01793/03
- Rights:
- © Mr K Truman. 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 moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330390
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Island Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISLAND WAREHOUSE, DOCKS 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:
- ISLAND WAREHOUSE, DOCKS BASIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40551 77166
Details
ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON DOCKS BASIN SJ 4077 7/16 Island Warehouse) (formerly listed as 24.2.71 Industrial Building spanning the Shropshire Union Canal) GV II 1871, large rectangular 2-storey warehouse for storage of grain for trans- shipment, converted to Boat Museum. Brown brick with blue brick projecting piers and bands on north west, north east and south east sides. Corbelled eaves, cornices and gable parapets in blue brick with stone copings, shaped finials and kneelers. Grey slate roof with three parallel ridges terminating in gables, south east and north west. The first floor of the south western structural bay is carried over a covered loading bay (the full length of the building), through which one arm of the canal passes. 15 cast iron columns with bell capitals and square bases (between blue brick corner piers) support south west wall over loading bay. External stairways at west and south corners with steps replaced in concrete and west stair altered. Framed and boarded double loading doors to lower storey on north west and both storeys on north east and south west sides (with loading balconies of timber, south west). Stone cills and lintels, some relieved by blue brick camber arches; small-pane cast iron fixed-light recessed windows to upper storey; circular vents in gables. INTERIOR: Timber first floor and heavy queen-post roof trusses carried on two rows of cast iron columns. Diagonal boarded undercloak and plain iron- framed skylights. Much non-structural alteration to interior consequent on conversion to museum.
Listing NGR: SJ4055177166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56276
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 08-Jun-2026 at 02:14:45.
Download a full scale map (PDF)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.