Listing Text

BRAUNSTON GRAND UNION CANAL
SP56NW Little Braunston
4/77 Lock Keepers Cottage and
spillway at bridge No.3

- II

Cottage. c.1800. Remodelled late C19. Brick, tile roof, brick stack to right.
T-plan. Two storeys; one bay. Doorway on left has plank door and wood lintel
continued over 2-light casement window to right. One-light casement window with
plain brick frame to first floor. Extension to left, brick, slate roof, one
storey, one bay has one-light transomed window with wood lintel. Extension to
rear, brick, tile roof, central stack. One storey, 2 bays. Brick arch to
spill-way below with blue brick adjoining walls flanking channel from the canal
Two 2-light C20 casement windows with brick frames to ground and first floor.
Interior not inspected. The Grand Junction Canal was authorised by Act of
Parliament in 1793, The Braunston section was complete by 1796. In 1929 it was
taken over by the Grand Union Canal Company and the name was changed. (A.H.
Faulkner; The Grand Junction Canal, 1972).

Listing NGR: SP5468465993