Leeds And Liverpool Canal Warehouse

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Warehouse is a canal warehouse built around 1876 for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company, likely designed by Mr. White. At the time of inspection in February 1992, it was unoccupied. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring sandstone quoins and dressings, with a plinth made of large dressed sandstone blocks and a slate roof. It has an almost rectangular plan that runs parallel to the canal.

The warehouse has three storeys and features a window arrangement of 4:4:2 facing the canal, with loading bays situated between these groups. There is a pitched canopy at the first floor from the seventh to the eleventh windows, which has boarded sides, a fretted fringe, and a corrugated asbestos sheet roof. The windows are segmental-headed with 16 panes, raised sills, gauged brick arches with keystones and springing blocks, and cast-iron glazing bars that include tilting casement openings.

The building includes full-height three-stage loading bays with quoin jambs and short loading stages. The right-side loading bay is protected by a lightweight asbestos-clad housing topped with a hipped glazed roof above eaves level. It features five downspout slots and an unusual frieze of bright red brick panels framed in raised stone. The roof has four large skylights and gable copings. The left (north) gable wall is canted back, while the right gable wall has altered two-stage loading doors served by an iron crane mounted on the quay and attached to the front corner.

At the rear, there is a continuous parallel loading bay with a pitched corrugated sheet roof and a fretted wooden fringe, supported by a latticed girder held up by three cast-iron columns with protective oval pedestals. The loading slots at the rear correspond to those at the front and have iron doors, both protected by housings with hipped roofs. There are three doorways at the ground floor with iron doors, and the fenestration at the rear is similar to the front but less regular. The interior was not inspected. This warehouse is one of nine new warehouses built by the company between 1874 and 1879 at various locations between Leeds and Liverpool.