Lock House

Lock House is a lock keeper's cottage built around 1805, designed by engineer Thomas Telford. It features painted brick construction and a hipped slate roof, with a cruciform plan and a front arm that has a bowed end. The building is two storeys high and has paired pilaster strips, pilaster strips flanking the central bow, deep eaves, and a central brick ridge stack. The façade consists of a 1:2:1 bay arrangement, with the bow containing a pair of first-floor segmental-headed two-light wooden casements and a pair of ground-floor segmental-headed horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes. To the left of the bow is a segmental-headed six-panelled door. There is a one-storey lean-to leading to a semi-circular loggia, which has a six-bay colonnade supported by octagonal wooden posts with plain pedestals and capitals. A one-bay return front features segmental-headed two-light wooden casements. The interior has not been inspected. This cottage is located next to the Grindley Brook Locks on the Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, which were engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford.