Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NW ROCHDALE CANAL
698-1/30/363 Lock Keeper's Cottage at Lock No.91,
29/01/86 next to Gaythorn Tunnel
(Formerly Listed as:
ROCHDALE CANAL
"Lock Keeper's Cottage and Lock at
Gathorn Tunnel")

GV II

Also known as: No.6 CENTURY STREET.
Lock keeper's cottage, now derelict. c.1805, altered. Red
brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and now
painted white above basement level, with slate roof.
Rectangular single-depth double-fronted plan. Three storeys
and 3 windows, the first storey being a full-height basement
and the 2nd effectively the "ground floor" at street level.
The basement wall is projected in the centre and to the left,
providing an access deck from the street to the doorway
(protected by remains of cast-iron railings); the doorway is
round-headed, with imposts and keystone and recessed inner
surround with imposts; the windows are large, with raised
sills and flat-arched heads, all either blocked or damaged (at
time of survey); stone parapet and hipped roof. Forms group
with Lock No.91 (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8345097571

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539898

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)