Lock Keepers Cottage At Chemistry Lock, With Walled Yard And Privy

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46NW CHESTER CANAL 1932-1/2/41 Lock Keeper's cottage at Chemistry Lock, with walled yard and privy

GV II

Lock keeper's cottage with walled yard and privy. c1800. Painted brick with grey slate roof. L-shaped in plan. 2 storeys. Face to canal has flush gable-end with 4-flue chimney; a small window to each storey. Face to left has projecting gable-end, right, with replaced cross-casement to ground floor and 4-pane horned recessed sash to first floor; door in side of rear wing. The rear has gable-end with a 4-pane casement to each storey. INTERIOR not inspected. The sluiceway of Chemistry Lock (qv), runs in a circular-section culvert under the cottage and the detached privy, across the small yard, which is brick with single-pitch roof and boarded door. The privy, now conventionally drained, was designed to discharge into the sluiceway beneath, as if a monastic rere-dorter.

Listing NGR: SJ4211566691