Trent And Mersey Canal House And Attached Warehouse

The property comprises a house and attached warehouse, built in four phases between the late 18th century and the early to mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red brick and painted brick, with slate roofs and a plain tile roof to the warehouse section. The house, which has three storeys plus a cellar, fronts onto Crewe Road, featuring a central entrance with a single window to either side. The ground and first-floor windows have splayed stone segmental arched lintels, and the entrance door is of 20th-century origin. A segmental-headed entrance and window at canal towpath level is visible at the left side gable end/cellar level.

A short wing connects to the three-storey warehouse at the rear, alongside the canal. The main warehouse section was built in two stages and has two two-storey loading bays with segmental-headed openings facing the canal. Further window openings are situated to either side of each storey in the original central section; the ground-floor window on the left has been bricked up. Ground and first-floor windows feature segmental arched lintels. An unusual chimney stack is located on the left-side ridge, likely an early addition. A gable end section with a lower-pitched roof was probably added around the mid-19th century. This section includes a segmental-headed loading door on the first floor and segmental-headed openings on the ground and first floors. A large segmental-headed loading door previously occupied the gable end, but it has been bricked up and replaced with a late-20th-century garage door. Wooden plank doors are present. The windows are either boarded up or fitted with late-20th-century panes. Dentilated eaves bands appear on both the warehouse and the house.

The Trent and Mersey Canal, built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall, is the context for the building, which forms part of a group of early canal-related structures around Wheelock Wharf.