Calder And Hebble Navigation, Canal Warehouse And Integral House At Elland Wharf Approximately 100 Metres Of Elland Bridge

This canal warehouse and integral house dates to circa 1820, with extensions after 1837. It is located approximately 100 metres east of Elland Bridge on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It forms an L-shaped layout, comprising a three-bay gabled wing attached to the left of a five-bay main range which incorporates a wet dock. The building has two storeys with an attic to the wing.

The north-west elevation faces the canal. The wing has a plinth and features a central taking-in door flanked by windows, the first-floor windows retaining small-pane glazing. An attic taking-in door is partly obscured by a sign with a cat-head above. A ridge stack is present. The symmetrical main range has, to both floors, a basket-arched opening (the ground-floor example is now blocked) flanked by windows with projecting sills and wedge-shaped lintels.

The rear elevation of the main range is similarly fenestrated as the front, with the first-floor openings unblocked. A metal cat-head with side braces is on the right end. To the right end, set back, is the house, which forms the rear of the warehouse wing. It has two storeys and an attic, with three first-floor windows. The central doorway has a fanlight and a window above with stone surrounds. A segmental bay on the left features a three-light window with a single light above, topped by a lunette within a coped gable. A break in the stonework indicates a later added bay with single-light windows to each floor. The right-hand return of the main range has a large basket-arched opening with voussoirs and skewbacks, acting as a quoin to its left. To the right are two small windows, one altered to a doorway, with two first-floor windows, all with wedge-shaped lintels. A coped gable has kneelers and an apex stone.

Internally, the northern half of the ground floor of the main range is occupied by a wet dock, U-shaped to the east end which contains a dry landing for unloading. The southern half comprises the warehouse floor. The roof of the main range has a fish-bone king-post construction with additional bracing supporting three purlins to each roof pitch. The wing is fitted with a queen-post roof, similarly braced and supporting three purlins.

Originally occupied by the resident foreman and yard master, the house formed accommodation associated with the warehouse operations. Records from the Calder and Hebble Navigation Company's minute books suggest a warehouse existed before 1822, with subsequent planned enlargements and extensions in 1824, 1834 (including a flagged shed for shoddy), 1836, and 1837, implying the wet dock warehouse post-dates the latter year.