THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM

THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM, LICHFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391118
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM
Statutory Address:: THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM, LICHFIELD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391118
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM
Statutory Address 1:: THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM, LICHFIELD STREET

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:: THE BOAT HOUSE ADJOINING HATHERTON LAKE IN WALSALL ABORETUM, LICHFIELD STREET

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

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 01897 99165

Details

1690/0/10032 LICHFIELD STREET 11-JUN-04 The Boat House Adjoining Hatherton Lak e in Walsall Aboretum

GV II Boat House. c.1874 for the Walsall Arboretum and Lake Co. Ltd., possibly designed by the County Surveyor, Robert Griffiths. Timber-framed with hipped tile roofs with a raised lantern, supported by cast-iron posts and set on a concrete base. Single storey boathouse sited c. 240m NE of the principal arboretum entrance on Hatherton Lake's edge. EXTERIOR: Elevation to lake is open with cast-iron columns framing the off centre embarkation platform and 3 mooring pens, all under shallow hipped roof with raised ridge lantern that includes timber-framed open clerestory with finials and bargeboards to its gabled ends. Side and rear walls are tongue and groove wood with cross-bracing supports. INTERIOR: Concrete base supports the structure above water level with storage areas to sides of mooring pens. Roof structure comprises tie beams with short vertical struts to collars, above this the framing for the ridge lantern that employs small king post trusses with raking struts. Shaped wooden boards to both end walls at water level. SOURCES: Walsall Arboretum An Introduction & History, Parks Services Division. Walsall Arboretum 1 Mile Walk leaflet. William R. Foster, 'A History of Walsall Arboretum', 1973, (unclear as to whether or not this has been published), p. 19 & 21. Stuart Williams, 'Gateway to a jewel', Walsall Chronicle, 26 December 2002. Walsall Arboretum, West Midlands, Walsall, NGR: SP0199, site reference number: 4899, 'Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest', June 2001. c. 1920s postcard of 'Arboretum Walsall', private collection, Cheltenham.

A timber-framed Victorian boat house that forms an important component of a Grade II Registered municipal landscape park.

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Legacy System number:: 493366
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 43 West Midlands,

Legal

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