Description

SK 44 30 PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE LONDON ROAD
7/200 (North Side)
14.3.75 No 2 Store
GV II
Salt warehouse, now corn merchants. Late C18 with minor later
alterations. Red brick, partly rendered, with brick and stone
dressings, plus hipped slate roof with sawtooth eaves band. Six
bays, square plan and two storeys. East elevation has a
slightly off-centre semi-circular headed doorcase with stone
impost blocks and brick arch, plus C20 doors. Set-high up to
south side there are two semi-circular windows with fan-like
glazing. There are three similar windows to north side of the
door and six similar above. Street elevation has a semi-
circular headed doorcase with three similar semi-circular
windows, to east, and a similar window to west with inserted
glazing bar sash below wedge stone lintel beyond to west. Above
there are five semi-circular windows and a depressed segmental
arch over the doorcase. Canal elevation has similar elements in
different arrangement with two arches to centre on ground and
first floors, flanked by semi-circular windows. Interior has
large king post roof trusses with side braces. This is one of a
group of late C18 and early C19 industrial buildings which were
erected soon after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal,
when Shardlow was a thriving inland port.

Listing NGR: SK4427730307

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500606

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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