Description

SO 96 NE TUTNALL AND COBLEY WORCESTER AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL TARDEBIGGE

1655-/9/10008 Lock Cottage at Lock 58, Tardebigge Flight

GV II

Lock Cottage. 1812-13, substantially rebuilt in Mid C19. Brick with plain tile hipped roofs. Lateral stack and ridge stack. Dog toothed eaves cornice. L plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Canal front has central doorway with extended porch with lean-to roof. To left and right, single windows with cambered arches. To right again, a doorway with cambered arch. Above, 3 windows: a narrow, central casement, with to left and right, C20 12-light, top-hung frames, all with cambered arches. Single storey, pitched roof extension adjoining to left of cottage, possibly a stable. One of a dwindling number of lock cottages standing at the top of important lock flights, it has group value with listed items: Lock 58; Canal Bridge about 100 metres W.S.W. of Lock 58; Workshops about 75 metres south-east of Tardebigge Tunnel; South portal of Tardebigge Tunnel q.v.

Listing NGR: SO9941169255

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)