Navigation Inn And Attached Warehouse

SJ 32 NW OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. MAESBURY MARSH

6/187 Navigation Inn and attached warehouse

GV II

Inn and attached warehouse. Circa 1796 with later additions and alterations. Red brick, rendered and painted to front, pantile roof with two C19 purplish red brick ridge stacks to inn. L-plan with warehouse flanking canal. 2 storeys, dentilled eaves cornice; inn to left has angled north end with panelled double doors under C20 porch, large fixed-light windows to left and right with C20 gabled dormer breaking eaves; road front has C19 casements to left and right of C20 door under gabled timber porch, those to ground floor with segmental heads. Warehouse: attached to right has segmental-headed doorway and two C19 casements directly below eaves to left and right (as on inn); segmental-headed doorways on ground and first floors on canal side (former now blocked). This section of the Ellesmere Canal, opened in 1796 to link with the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa, was used to transport limestone from the quarries at Llanymynech and became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846. Included for group value. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966), p. 170.

Listing NGR: SJ3136825027