Description

NORBURY SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL
SJ 72 SE
603/7/18 Boat Maintenance workshop,
on east side of canal,
Norbury Junction
at 792 227
GV
II

Boat maintenance workshop. Early Mid C19, C20 alterations.
Single storey brick building. Large, hipped slate roof,
overhanging at eaves. Double sliding wooden doors on north side
allowing entrance from canal dock. Early C20 bay window at north
east corner. Various original cambered windows with small-paned
cast-iron frames on west, south and east sides. West side has
C19 extensions, and tall tapering chimney stack of former steam
engine. Interior: industrial king post truss roof. C20 concrete
dry dock. Norbury was a canal commuity centred upon the junction
of the Birmingham and Liverpool junction canal (near the
Shropshire Union Canal) with its Newport Branch.

Listing NGR: SJ7938922797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562804

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)