Cottage Immediately East Of Bridge Number 62 (Coachman'S Bridge)

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SJ 33 SE (south-east side) (Llangollen Branch)

8/162 Cottage immediately east - of Bridge No. 62 (Coachman's Bridge) GV II Canal-worker's cottage. Circa 1797 to 1801 with later additions and alterations on William Jessop's and Thomas Telford's Ellesmere Canal. Red brick; hipped graded slate roof with deep boarded eaves and late C19 axial red brick ridge stack. Square plan. 2 storeys. Segmental-headed C19 casement on each floor to centre. Boarded door to right under C19 gabled timber porch with outline of earlier gabled porch above. Mid-to late C19 brick lean-to to rear (canal side). This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed c.1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company amalgamated with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Charles Hadfield, Canals of the West Midlands (3rd edn. 1985), p. 173; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal (1975), pp. 19-20.

Listing NGR: SJ3855632976