Northgate Lock Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Cottage.

Northgate Lock Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-courtyard-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4066 CANAL STREET 1932-1/6/31 (South side) 10/01/72 Northgate Lock Keepers Cottage (Formerly Listed as: CANAL STREET Lock Keeper's House at Northgate Locks)

II

Lock keeper's cottage. c1790. Probably by Thomas Telford. Brown brick with graded grey slate hipped roof. South elevation to canal has flush sandstone plinth; 4 simple brick pilasters. The ground floor has 2 replaced 16-pane sashes with stone sills. The first floor has an unequal 12-pane sash to each side of a blocked sash opening. Timber fascia beneath boldly projecting eaves with exposed joists; short ridge with central brick chimney. Hip-roofed brick porch, probably added, west, with 6-pane fixed light in outer face and replaced part-glazed door to the north. The west side has a 16-pane ground floor sash and an unequal 12-pane first floor sash. The east side has a blocked window opening to each storey. The rear has a C20 wing towards west and a 16-pane ground floor window towards east; the first floor has a 9-pane unequal sash, east, a blocked central sash opening and an unequal 12-pane sash, west. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4019266647

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