Bridge Warehouse At East End Of Leeds-Liverpool Canal Basin

The Bridge Warehouse at the east end of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Basin is a canal warehouse that has been converted into offices. It was originally built in 1777 for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company and was rebuilt in 1984 by MS Churchward for AL Gibson. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with punch-dressed quoining and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular double-pile plan oriented on an east-west axis, spanning the canal.

The exterior consists of two storeys above a shipping-hole basement, with a twin-gabled front that faces the canal and includes a 2:2 window arrangement. The shipping holes are characterized by coupled semi-circular arches with plain voussoirs. Above and beside these arches are former loading slots arranged in stages of 3, 2, 2, and 3, featuring punch-dressed quoins and lintels. The openings at the basement level of the outer bays have been converted into doorways, while others have been altered to serve as windows. Each gable contains a small lunette. The gables are coped, and there is a downspout from the central valley.

On the left (north) side, there is a central 2-stage loading slot (now altered to windows) flanked by one and two windows at the basement level, and two pairs of windows above. The right-hand (south) side features 2-stage loading slots (now windows) flanking two windows on each floor. The rear of the building, which overlooks a semicircular-ended basin, has two ground floor windows aligned below the outermost of four first-floor windows, along with two lunettes in the gables similar to those at the front. The interior has been remodeled.