Number 2 Store

SK 44 30 PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE LONDON ROAD 7/200 (North Side) 14.3.75 No 2 Store GV II Salt warehouse, now corn merchants. Late C18 with minor later alterations. Red brick, partly rendered, with brick and stone dressings, plus hipped slate roof with sawtooth eaves band. Six bays, square plan and two storeys. East elevation has a slightly off-centre semi-circular headed doorcase with stone impost blocks and brick arch, plus C20 doors. Set-high up to south side there are two semi-circular windows with fan-like glazing. There are three similar windows to north side of the door and six similar above. Street elevation has a semi- circular headed doorcase with three similar semi-circular windows, to east, and a similar window to west with inserted glazing bar sash below wedge stone lintel beyond to west. Above there are five semi-circular windows and a depressed segmental arch over the doorcase. Canal elevation has similar elements in different arrangement with two arches to centre on ground and first floors, flanked by semi-circular windows. Interior has large king post roof trusses with side braces. This is one of a group of late C18 and early C19 industrial buildings which were erected soon after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal, when Shardlow was a thriving inland port.

Listing NGR: SK4427730307