LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY

LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY, CHESTER CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375739
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY
Statutory Address:: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY, CHESTER CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375739
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY
Statutory Address 1:: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY, CHESTER CANAL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE AT CHEMISTRY LOCK, WITH WALLED YARD AND PRIVY, CHESTER CANAL

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 42115 66691

Details

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46NW CHESTER CANAL 1932-1/2/41 Lock Keeper's cottage at Chemistry Lock, with walled yard and privy

GV II

Lock keeper's cottage with walled yard and privy. c1800. Painted brick with grey slate roof. L-shaped in plan. 2 storeys. Face to canal has flush gable-end with 4-flue chimney; a small window to each storey. Face to left has projecting gable-end, right, with replaced cross-casement to ground floor and 4-pane horned recessed sash to first floor; door in side of rear wing. The rear has gable-end with a 4-pane casement to each storey. INTERIOR not inspected. The sluiceway of Chemistry Lock (qv), runs in a circular-section culvert under the cottage and the detached privy, across the small yard, which is brick with single-pitch roof and boarded door. The privy, now conventionally drained, was designed to discharge into the sluiceway beneath, as if a monastic rere-dorter.

Listing NGR: SJ4211566691

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Legacy System number:: 469718
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.