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SD 85 38 NELSON CARR ROAD Leeds-Liverpool Canal Warehouse 1317-0/0/10000 II

Canal warehouse. Unoccupied at time of inspection (February 1992). c1876, for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company, probably by Mr White; altered. Red brick in English bond, with sandstone quoins and dressings plinth of large dressed sandstone blocks, and slate roof. Almost rectangular plan parallel to and immediately adjoining canal. Three storeys, 4:4:2 windows to the canal, with loading bays between these groups and a pitched canopy at 1st-floor from the 7th to the 11th windows, with boarded sides, fretted fringe and corrugated asbestos sheet roof. Segmental-headed 16-pane windows with raised sills, gauged brick arches with keystones and springing blocks, and cast-iron glazing bars which include tilting casement openings. Full- height 3-stage loading bays with quoins jambs and short loading stages, that to the right protected by light-weight asbestos-clad housing with hipped glazed roof above eaves level. Five downspout slots; unusual frieze of bright red brick panels in raised stone framing; roof with 4 large skylights and gable copings. Left (north) gable-wall canted back. Right-hand gable wall has altered 2-stage loading doors served by iron crane mounted on quay and-attached to front corner. Rear has continuous parallel loading bay with pitched corrugated sheet roof and fretted wooden fringe, carried on latticed girder supported by 3 cast-iron columns with protective oval pedestals; loading slots corresponding to those at the front, with iron doors, both protected by housings with hipped roofs; 3 doorways at ground floor with iron doors; fenestration similar to front but less regular. Interior not inspected. HISTORY': one of 9 new warehouses built by the company between 1874 and 1879 at various places between Leeds and Liverpool.

Listing NGR: SD8566638036

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