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Latitude: 51.6743 / 51°40'27"N
Longitude: -3.7806 / 3°46'50"W
OS Eastings: 276970
OS Northings: 198786
OS Grid: SS769987
Mapcode National: GBR H3.5RRV
Mapcode Global: VH5GN.F55S
Plus Code: 9C3RM6F9+PP
Entry Name: Lock House
Listing Date: 25 February 2000
Last Amended: 25 February 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22867
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300022867
Location: On the S side of the Neath Canal facing the lock. The house backs on to and stands at the foot of Lock Hill on the N side of Henfaes Road.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Community: Tonna
Community: Tonna
Locality: Neath Canal Depot
Built-Up Area: Neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
The Neath Canal was begun in 1791 and opened in 1794. Traffic ceased in 1921. The house was probably built in the last decade of the C18 and is first shown on the Llantwit-juxta-Neath Tithe map of 1846, where it is shown as a lock-keeper's house. In the third quarter of the C19 it was extended to create a double-depth plan, the arrangement shown on the 1870s Ordnance Survey.
A 2-storey, double-depth house with roughcast walls painted white and late C19 plate glass sash windows, slate roofs and roughcast end stacks. The twin-gabled main entrance is on the W side facing the bottom of the steep track from the village. It has a central boarded door with overlight and windows lower L and R. Facing the canal the house is 2-window. The opposite S wall has a single window in each storey. The rear faces a yard on the E side has a half-lit door to the L and added low gabled porch to the R with boarded door and a central replaced window to the centre. The upper storey has 2 sash windows.
Not inspected.
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as an integral component of the most complete depot of any of the South Wales canals.
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