2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395941
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
- Statutory Address:
- 2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395941
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, KENNET AND AVON 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:
- 2, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75882 65526
Details
KENNET AND AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0
No.2 (Formerly listed as: KENNET AND AVON CANAL No. 2 Canal Cottages) 11/08/72 II
Canal cottage, facing Kennet and Avon Canal and backing onto railway. Early C19 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, single pitched slate roof with moulded stack to gable ends. PLAN: Double depth with long, single storey left wing EXTERIOR: Two storeys. Canal front is of three bays at first floor level. Central arched door opening with raised surround. Pair of arched eight-pane windows to left, single window to right, all with raised surrounds and cills carried on consoles. Moulded kneelers to coped gable ends, wide sloping bracketed eaves, ground floor platband, plinth, semicircular arched windows to front, those to first floor have ornamental stops to raised hoods, those to ground floor, paired to left, have raised surrounds and bracketed sills. Door, now blocked, has similar surround with keystone. Entrance now in C20 wall to north. Rear, facing railway, has one tripartite window to left of both floors, to first floor has twelve-panes to centre, possibly swivel hinged, and six-panes to sides, to ground floor has C20 glazing to sides. South wing has C20 windows. On the south gable end is an enamelled sign identifying the building as the `Bath Humane Society's station for life buoys and drag poles'. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Kennet and Avon Canal was authorised in 1794 and opened in 1810. The engineer was John Rennie. This was built as a lengthman's cottage to supervise the pound up to the next length the cottage for which is just beyond Bathampton. SOURCES: Civil Engineering Heritage: Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England: London: 1986-: 112-114.
Listing NGR: ST7588265526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511350
- 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.
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