Description

STOURPORT ON SEVERN

SO8171SW ENGINE LANE
589-1/9/16 (North side)
05/07/50 Stourport Yacht Club House
(Formerly Listed as:
ENGINE LANE
Woodyard and Saw-mills (on basin
side))

GV II

Club house, originally grain and general merchandise
warehouse. Late C18, built for Staffordshire and
Worcestershire Canal Company. Painted brick with slate roof.
2-storeyed, 10 bays. Some alterations to facade but original
openings largely maintained, though one doorway apparently
inserted in former window. External staircase to upper storey.
Cambered brick heads to all windows. Roof is surmounted by
wood clock tower with leaded cupola, added by public
subscription in 1812. Original iron clock faces recently
replaced.
(The Canals of the British Isles: Hadfield Charles: The Canals
of the West Midlands: Newton Abbot: 1966-; Porteous J D: Canal
Ports: The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age: London: 1977-:
83-105).

Listing NGR: SO8101371118

Selected Sources

• Porteous, J D , Canal Ports The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age, (1977), 83-105
• Hadfield, C, 'The Canals of the British Isles' in The Canals of the East Midlands, (1966)

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