Old Salt Warehouse To North East Of The Clock Warehouse

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SK 44 30, 7/185

PARISH OF SHARDLOW AND GREAT WILNE, LONDON ROAD (South Side), Old Salt Warehouse to North-East of the Clock Warehouse

(Formerly listed as: Old Salt Warehouse to North-East of Trent Mill No 2)

18.12.74

GV

II

Former salt warehouse, general warehouse, now Shardlow Heritage Centre. Late Cl8 with later alterations. Red brick with plain tile roof, plus roof lights to southern pitch. Two storeys and three bays. South front, facing the canal, has a wide two storey opening with double doors to each floor. To east side on the ground floor there is a 2-light timber mullion window and above to west there are three openings below the eaves with an assortment of windows. Street elevation to north has steps up to a plank door, flanked by 2-light casement windows to west and double doors to east, with a shuttered opening beyond. One of the earliest, in 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: SK4417130282