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

This is a canal-worker's cottage located immediately east of Bridge Number 62 (Coachman's Bridge) on the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal. It was built between 1797 and 1801, with later additions and alterations. The cottage is constructed of red brick and features a hipped graded slate roof with deep boarded eaves and a late 19th-century axial red brick ridge stack. It has a square plan and stands two storeys high. There is a segmental-headed 19th-century casement window on each floor at the center, and a boarded door to the right, which is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled timber porch that has the outline of an earlier gabled porch above it. At the rear, which faces the canal, there is a mid-to-late 19th-century brick lean-to. This section of the Ellesmere Canal was completed around 1801. The Ellesmere Canal Company merged with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and became part of the Shropshire Union Canal in 1846.