Description

WHIXALL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION
SJ 43 NE CANAL (south
side)

1/206 Roving Bridge
- House
- II
Toll keeper's cottage, now farmhouse. Circa 1800 on William Jessop's
and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick (English bond);
pyramidal graded slate roof with wide spreading eaves and central
red brick stack with ceramic chimney pots. Square plan. 2 storeys
to canal side plus semi-basement to rear. Blind roundels to first
floor flanking C19 casement directly below eaves; ground floor has
segmental-headed horizontal sliding sash to left and C19 casement
to right of original gabled brick porch with boarded door and semi-
circular fanlight. Interior: semi-basement has exposed ceiling joists
and 3 round-headed doorways with original plank doors. Situated
at the junction between the main line of the former Ellesmere Canal
and its Prees branch. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with
the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire
Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd
edn. 1985), pp.177, 331.

Listing NGR: SJ4891835195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530367

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)