Top Lock Cottage
TOP LOCK COTTAGE, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395954
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Top Lock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOP LOCK COTTAGE, KENNET AND AVON CANAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395954
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Top Lock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP LOCK COTTAGE, 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:
- TOP LOCK COTTAGE, 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 75792 64662
Details
KENNET and AVON CANAL 656-1/0/0 (West side) Top Lock Cottage
11/08/72
GV II
Canal keeper's cottage. c1810 altered late C20. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front, rubblestone to rest, restored hipped pantile roof with moulded ridge stacks with two diagonally set shafts to left, one to right. PLAN: Two-unit plan. EXTERIOR: Single storey, symmetrical four-window range. To each side are wide bracketed eaves over plain raised dripmoulds and square surrounds to three-light pointed-arched blind windows, that to centre of right hand side glazed. Central bay steps forward to meet eaves, raised surround to pointed-arched doorcase flanked by similar smaller glazed windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised in 1794, opened 1810. The Engineer in Charge was John Rennie. The picturesque architectural treatment of this cottage may have been insisted upon by the Bathwick Estate, whose surveyor, John Pinch, may have been involved in the design. A second such cottage is located north of Sydney Gardens. SOURCE: K.R. Clew, The Kennet & Avon Canal (Newton Abbot 1968).
Listing NGR: ST7579264662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511363
- 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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