No. 21, Dobson's Boatyard, The Wharf is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Canal warehouse.
No. 21, Dobson's Boatyard, The Wharf
- WRENN ID
- slow-gutter-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Canal warehouse
- Address
- No. 21, Dobson's Boatyard, The Wharf, Dobson's Boatyard (Millar Marine), Shardlow and Great Wilne, DE72 2GH
- OS grid reference
- SK 442 303
- Coordinates
- 52.8688, -1.34408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21, Dobson's Boatyard, is a canal warehouse building that has been converted into small business premises. It dates from the late 18th century and has undergone some alterations over time. The structure is built of red brick and features a slate roof with a stepped eaves band. It is a single-storey building with six bays.
The north elevation includes two wide central doorways with segment-headed arches, which have glazed doors, and these are flanked by pairs of segment-headed fixed small pane windows. The west gable wall has similar windows on either side of a large opening with rendered jambs and a timber lintel, which has been filled in with a large window. Above this is a segment-headed louvred opening. On the canal side gable wall, there is a central segment-headed opening that has been filled with a glazed door and window, with blocked segment-headed windows on either side.
Inside, the building features large queen post trusses that support double purlins. This warehouse is part of a group of industrial buildings that were constructed after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal, during a time when Shardlow was a bustling port.
Local climate
No. 21, Dobson's Boatyard, The Wharf sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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