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Latitude: 52.9811 / 52°58'51"N
Longitude: -2.7112 / 2°42'40"W
OS Eastings: 352346
OS Northings: 342872
OS Grid: SJ523428
Mapcode National: GBR 7K.J7XQ
Mapcode Global: WH89H.BB6H
Plus Code: 9C4VX7JQ+CG
Entry Name: Lock House
Listing Date: 1 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1180172
English Heritage Legacy ID: 260682
ID on this website: 101180172
Location: Grindley Brook, Shropshire, SY13
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Whitchurch Urban
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Whitchurch St Alkmund
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: House
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SJ 54 SW SJ 5234 4287 Llangollen Branch (north- west side) 1/125 No. 1 (Lock House) - - II
Lock keeper's cottage. Circa 1805. Thomas Telford, engineer. Painted brick with hipped slate roof. Cruciform plan; front arm with bowed end. 2 storeys. Paired pilaster strips, pilaster strips flanking central bow, deep eaves and central brick ridge stack. 1:2:1 bays. Bow with pair of first-floor segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements and pair of ground-floor segmental-headed horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes. Segmental-headed 6-panelled door on left-hand bay. One- storey lean-to to semi-circular loggia with 6-bay colonnade consisting of octagonal wooden posts with plain pedestals and capitals. One-bay return front with segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements. Interior not inspected. The cottage is adjacent to the Grindley Brook Locks (not included on this list) on the Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1st edn. 1966), pp. 166-183; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, pp. 19-22.
Listing NGR: SJ5234642872
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