No. 21, Dobson'S Boatyard, The Wharf

This list entry is subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/11/2016

SK 44 20, 7/208

PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE, No. 24, The Wharf.

(Formerly listed as: THE WHARF (East Side) Dobsons Chandlery Warehouse adjacent to Nos 20 & 22 The Wharf)

(Previously listed as No 3 Store adjacent to 20/22 The Wharf)

14.3.75

GV

II

Canal warehouse building, now small business premises. Late C18 with later alterations. Red brick with slate roof plus stepped eaves band. Single storey and six bays. North elevation has two wide central segment headed door cases with glazed doors, flanked by pairs of segment headed fixed small pane windows. West gable wall has similar windows flanking a large opening with rendered jambs and a timber lintel, now filled in with a large window. Above is a segment headed louvred opening. Canal side gable wall has a central segment headed opening, now filled by glazed door and window, flanked to either side by blocked segment headed windows. Interior has large queen post trusses supporting double purlins. Part of a group of industrial buildings erected after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal, when Shardlow was a thriving port.

Listing NGR: SK4425030345