Number 1 Store Attached To West Side Of Number 139 London Road

SK 44 30 PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE LONDON ROAD 7/201 (North Side) 14.3.75 No 1 Store Attached to West Side of No 139 London Road GV II Warehouse. Early C19 with C20 additions and alterations. Red brick with hipped slate roof and stepped eaves band. Three storeys and twelve bays. Gabled canal side elevation has hoist doorways to each floor with double plank doors and small segment headed windows to south side on the first and second floors. To north side there is the remains of a timber hoist. South elevation of six small segment headed windows to ground floor, with doorways between the two western windows and between the eastern two, with a large corrugated iron shed beyond to east plus two C20 windows beyond again. Above there are eight similar windows and two segment headed doorways. Above again there are eleven similar windows and one plank door, four bays east from the west wall. Most windows are now blocked but most still have two iron bars. One of a group of industrial buildings erected after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal when Shardlow was a thriving inland port. Included for group value only.

Listing NGR: SK4430830314