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SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/90 (West side) 19/07/88 Nos.85 AND 85A Wharf Master's House and Toll Office at Manchester Road canal wharf

GV II

Wharf Master's house and attached toll office, now museum. c1850. For Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company. Sandstone ashlar, hipped stone slate roofs on 2 levels. Rectangular plan parallel to the street, with the toll office forming a projecting angled wing to the left. EXTERIOR: each has a full basement storey at towpath level. Otherwise, the house presents a 2-storey asymmetrical 2-window facade to the street, with a 1st-floor sillband and paired stone gutter brackets; a central doorway with a bracketed cornice, triangular-headed lintel and recessed door with square overlight; one window above the door and one on each floor to the left (none to the right), all segmental-headed with keystones and altered glazing; and corniced stone chimney stacks on the left and right slopes of the roof (which is gabled to the rear). Its 3-window right-hand return wall has 2 basement windows and a wide entrance to a through-passage at the rear, and on each upper floor a large 2-light window flanked by one-light windows, those to the left sashed but the others altered. The left side wall has a flight of stone steps up to the toll office. The toll office is square except for a splayed rear left corner, presents one storey to the street with a doorway to the right, a window next to this (both detailed like those of the house) and a front-wall chimney to the left; its left side has one 4-pane sash on each floor, and another at ground floor of the splayed corner; and the rear has a doorway at ground floor, a 4-pane sash above this and a 1st-floor doorway to the left (approached by the steps attached to the house). INTERIOR not inspected. Forms part of an important group at this wharf, including 3 warehouses attached to rear of house (qv), boundary wall to yard (qv), stable block on east side of yard (qv), and with Manchester Road Canal Bridge (qv).





Listing NGR: SD8387932258

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