Bank Bridge Warehouse

TARLETON BANK BRIDGE SD 42 SE 4/49 Bank Bridge Warehouse 11.10.1968 GV II

Canal warehouse, now store. Probably c.1790; altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan, 3 bays and 3 storeys; both sides and both gable walls have loading bays with long-and-short jambs of sandstone, all (except south end) containing 3 vertically stacked segmental-headed loading doorways which have massive lintels with rusticated pseudo-voussoirs; the west side, to the canal, has 2 loading bays, and between them a 3-light window on each floor, with stone sills and heads, and the east side is a reciprocal reflection of this, with one loading bay in the centre and windows each side; all these loading doors have been altered as windows. The north gable has a similar loading bay, but with the ground floor level still a doorway; the south gable loading bay is approached by a ramp to 1st floor, and has 2 unaltered doorways. Interior not inspected, but believed to be of timber post and beam construction. Built to serve Leeds-Liverpool Canal "new cut" from Burscough to Tarleton.

Listing NGR: SD4598220278