Stable Block With Attached Outbuildings, Walls And Gateway At Navigation House

SJ 67 SE NORTHWICH NAVIGATION ROAD

1635-5/10002 No 29 Stable Block with attached outbuildings, walls and gateway at Navigation House

GV II

Stable block to Navigation House. Built for Weaver Navigation trust. 1856. Cheshire common bricks. Slate roof with single stack on rear wall. Dentilled eaves cornice. 1½ storeys; cart store and stable with hayloft above. 2 bays. Large off-centre vehicle entrance with cambered arch and cobbled area leading to large doorway with plank doors to cart store and smaller doorway with plank door to stable. Above, a circular pitching hole. To left, a rectangular stone plaque with chamfered corners, inscribed with date 1856. To left again, on ground storey, an original glazing bar casement with cambered arch. Above, an original glazing bar sliding sash with flat head interrupting cornice. Adjoining E. gable is an open coal store with ramped wall with sandstone coping and a wash-house with plank door and glazing bar casement. Adjoining W. gable is a smaller lean-to. brick walls attached to stable block run E. to link Navigation House and W. to return S. and form gateway to yard, with double wooden plank gates and attached plank doorway. A little altered stable block forming a rear and complete group with Navigation House and having group value with former Weaver Navigation Office and Clock Tower, q.v.

Listing NGR: SJ6559073375