Description

SK 31 SW
4/39

MEASHAM
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
No. 26

GV
II

Canal warehouse, now shop of c1800. Red brick - Measham gobs - with
brick dentilled eaves and gable band and roof of C20 tiles. Front of
2 storeys: rear of 3. Painted front has 3 recessed half round openings
with C20 windows above, long central fascia, and below a recessed central
door in a former now altered giant arch with C20 windows either side. Left
end abuts line of former canal which went under street at this point. Here
a recessed giant arch with original 3 blank recessed windows, ground and
1st floor cambered lintels, 2nd floor round arched. Rear has recessed central
arch and 3 2nd floor renewed windows with cambered lintels and C 20 brick
flat-roofed extension. Ground floor right a large blocked arch originally
serving as direct access to wharf. House to right forming part of No. 26 of
lesser interest. This warehouse and Nos. 39-43 exactly opposite were
originally designed as mirror images and constitute a noteworthy group.

Listing NGR: SK3334612100

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472594

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