Description

1. THE GOSS
5106 Brierley Hill

4/1 No 42 (Lock-Keeper's House

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2.
Lock-Keeper's house. 1779 with C19 alterations and addition. Probably based on a
standard design by Thomas Dadford, Senior,Surveyor and Engineer to the Dudley Canal
Company, to house the keeper of the Delph Locks. Later render on brick. Later tiles
to roof: a hip over the canted N.W. end bay which faces the canal, and gables at the
S.E. end. Brick ridge stack and gable end stacks. Brick dentil eaves cornice.
2 storeys withCl9 single storey gabled extension at S.E, end. The canted bay at N.W.
end has a C19 cross mullion/transom casement with bars on the front. A metal plate
above inscribed with the Birmingham Canal Navigation reference number:151. On first
floor a horned sash. Probably windows to the canted sides, but now blocked and
rendered. Entry on S.W. side in C1930 porch. Windows similar to N.W. bay on N.E.
and S.W. sides of house.Interior not inspected. The locks, which were originally
close to the house, were replaced in 1858 by locks at 68 metres to N.W. Important as
one of the few surviving canal houses of this type.

Listing NGR: SO9195486490

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568503

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)