Description

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SO8171SW ENGINE LANE 589-1/9/15 (North East side) Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock Cottage

GV II

Canal maintenance building, formerly iron warehouse, and adjoining dwelling. c1776 but extended in early C19. Painted brick with Welsh slate roof. Original warehouse range to north is 2-storeyed, though largely open to roof and with an inserted floor in part of the structure. 3 bays with round-arched central doorway and casement windows with cambered brick heads in north elevation. Curved corner to NW. Coped SE gable with blocked oculus. Extended towards the south circa 1800, in a hipped roofed wing with rounded corners, and wide casement windows in south elevation (one blocked). Early C19 added wing adjoining and parallel with this, probably always in domestic use, has paired windows with flat arched heads. Blocked doorway between the wings, the present doorway in added porch to west. NW elevation of warehouse has giant opening now partly glazed. Dentilled eaves bands throughout. Interior of northern range has king-post roof with 6 trusses radiating from a single pilaster, spanning the full height curved space.

Listing NGR: SO8104271067

External Links

• Wikidata Q26580394

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (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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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)