British Waterways Burnley Operations Base

BURNLEY

SD83SW FINSLEY GATE 906-1/3/55 (South side) 29/09/77 British Waterways Burnley Operations Base (Formerly Listed as: FINSLEY GATE Carpenter's Shop (British Waterways Board))

GV II

Canal boatyard warehouse, now workshop and offices. Early to mid C19; altered and enlarged. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis, with c1900 brick addition to right now linking it to a contemporary ancillary building which forms a west wing. 2 storeys and 3 bays (2:1:2 windows), symmetrical; with a full-height segmental-headed wagon doorway in the centre, with rock-faced surround and voussoirs, altered so as to make a similarly-shaped ground-floor doorway, the upper portion filled by a wooden and glazed screen with a doorway and a cast-iron balcony on wooden brackets; four 36-pane fixed windows at ground floor and four 25-pane fixed windows at 1st floor, all with chisel-dressed raised sills and lintels; and gable copings with kneelers, plus a chimney at the right-hand gable. Brick addition to right; and stone gabled wing to right of this. Rear has 1:2 windows at 1st floor with a loft doorway between, the former window to the left of this altered as a 2nd doorway, and the original external stone steps enlarged to make a double flight; two 25-pane windows to the right at ground floor (former windows to left blocked), and three 16-pane windows above. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: associated with former boatyard at Finsley Gate wharf. Forms group with former forge to left (qv) and with Finsley House beyond (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8425531930