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Latitude: 53.4806 / 53°28'50"N
Longitude: -2.2219 / 2°13'18"W
OS Eastings: 385368
OS Northings: 398228
OS Grid: SJ853982
Mapcode National: GBR DPH.K9
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.VS33
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJH+66
Entry Name: Ashton Canal Lock Keepers Cottage Beside Lock Number 2 at Islington Branch Junction Basin
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279636
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387890
ID on this website: 101279636
Location: Ancoats, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Bradford
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Church of the Apostles
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Lock keeper's house
MANCHESTER
SJ8598 ASHTON CANAL, Beswick And Clayton
698-1/17/508 Lock-keeper's cottage beside Lock
No.2 at Islington Branch junction
basin
GV II
Lock-keeper's cottage. c.1800, altered. Brown brick in English
garden wall bond, slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan,
plus small extension at right-hand corner. Basement and 2
storeys (on sloped site, 3 storeys at rear), a 3-window range;
doorway to left of 3rd window, with altered door and painted
lintel; windows with raised stone sills and altered glazing,
those at ground floor segmental-headed; single-storey lean-to
addition at right-hand end. Ridge chimney between 1st and 2nd
windows, gable chimney to the right. Right-hand return wall
has segmental-headed basement doorway beside lean-to; lower
part of rear corner at this end is slightly chamfered and has
stone quoin reinforcement against chafing of tow-ropes
(tow-path passing round building from lock to bridge); rear
has segmental-headed basement doorway near this corner, and 2
widely-spaced windows on each floor. Interior not inspected.
Forms group with Lock No.[2] to east (q.v.) and Towpath Bridge
over Islington Branch to west (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8536898227
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