Warehouse And Canal Cottage At Dugdale Wharf

BURNLEY

SD83SW LOWERHOUSE LANE, Rose Grove 906-1/3/239 (West side) 29/09/77 Warehouse and Canal Cottage at Dugdale Wharf (Formerly Listed as: LOWERHOUSE LANE Canal Cottage) (Formerly Listed as: LOWERHOUSE LANE Warehouse adjoining Canal Cottage)

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Canal warehouse, now workshop, with attached cottage. Probably mid C19; altered. Sandstone random rubble, the cottage slobbered, with stone slate roofs. The warehouse is rectangular in plan, on an east-west axis parallel to and adjoining the canal, and the cottage is a full-height outshut to its south side, under a carried-down roof. EXTERIOR: the warehouse is 2 storeys, with a gabled 2-window east front which is symmetrical, has an altered wagon doorway in the centre of the ground floor (now closed by sliding doors), a large round-headed loading doorway above this with quoined jambs, plain voussoirs and double board doors; 2 small square windows on each floor, all with plain sills and lintels and the upper with very small panes; and, attached to the right-hand corner, the shaft of a wooden jib crane. Its north side (overlooking the canal) has loading doorways like that at the front on both floors of the 1st bay, and 2 small square windows on each floor beyond those, that to the right at 1st floor blocked and the others with 6-pane glazing. INTERIOR has 2 rows of cast-iron columns, and queen-post roof trusses. The cottage has a small altered single-storey porch to the front and a small sashed window above; its south side has a doorway to the left with a small gabled wooden porch, a 4-pane sashed window to the right, a small sashed window without glazing bars above the doorway, and a tall side-wall chimney to the right. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8152232651