South Warehouse To Rear Of Wharf Masters House At Manchester Road Canal Wharf

BURNLEY

SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/93 (West side) 16/08/77 South warehouse to rear of Wharf Master's House at Manchester Road canal wharf (Formerly Listed as: MANCHESTER ROAD 3 warehouses to rear of No.85)

GV II

Canal warehouse with integral cottage, now store. c1796-1800 in 2 builds, for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company, slightly altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan parallel to canal, with the former cottage at the right-hand (south) end. 2 storeys and 5 windows, with a vertical joint at about two-thirds of the distance from the south end. Each portion has a superimposed pair of wide segmental-headed loading doorways (one slightly offset left of centre and the other at the left end), all with long-and-short quoined jambs, plain voussoirs and double board doors, and those in the centre with remains of wooden staging to the upper doorway; and to the left of this pair of doorways are the iron footing and jib-head of a former crane, the wall at ground floor coved inwards for the former counter-weight. Both portions have 3-light mullioned windows with flat-faced flush mullions: a pair on each floor flanking the centre loading doorways, and one on each floor to the right of the other doorways. The former cottage at the right-hand end has a late C19 2-storey canted bay window, a tall doorway to the left of this with altered door and overlight, and a window above. The rear (to the yard) has a full-length stone platform to the ground floor, loading doorways corresponding to those on the canal side (both with C20 staging), and two 3-light mullioned windows (but the cottage portion has been rendered and altered). INTERIORS not inspected. Forms group with Wharf Master's House and Toll Office attached at south end (qv), the 2 warehouses added at the north end (qv), the stable block on the east side of the yard (qv), and with Manchester Road Canal Bridge (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8387032283