Former Iron Warehouse South of Nos 40 and 42 The Wharf

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SK 44 30 7/211

PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE THE WHARF (East Side) Former Iron Warehouse South of Nos 40 and 42 The Wharf

28.1.77

GV II

Canal warehouse, iron merchants warehouse and now small premises. Late C18, altered c1813, with late C19 additions and C20 alterations. Red brick with gauged brick dressings and slate roofs. Single storey plus attics and seven bays, plus single storey three bay additions to north. South elevation has narrow recessed gabled central bay with two bays to either side, each pair below a wide gable and beyond to either side there are single slightly recessed lean-to bays. Ground floor has seven segment headed doorways that to centre now blocked in with C20 window and those to sides all with double plank floors. Above five centre bays have four three-light segment headed windows and an inserted plank door to south. To north there are three gabled later C19 bays, also with segment headed doors.

Interior of southern two bays have original substantial queen post trusses, supported to centre on large timber posts, also with timber gallery to east end and a lower gallery to south, supported by iron columns and joists. This was inserted c1813 when the warehouse was converted into an iron merchants warehouse. Central bay has its original timber floor and two northern bays have the original roof trusses but the central supports have been replaced by braces into the walls. One of the earliest in the series of industrial buildings erected after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal when Shardlow was a thriving inland port.

Listing NGR: SK4437030431