Lock House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. Cottage.

Lock House

WRENN ID
grey-gravel-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic England listing

Description

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL, SJ 54 SW SJ 5234 4287 Llangollen Branch (north- west side) 1/125 No. 1 (Lock House) - - II

Lock keeper's cottage. Circa 1805. Thomas Telford, engineer. Painted brick with hipped slate roof. Cruciform plan; front arm with bowed end. 2 storeys. Paired pilaster strips, pilaster strips flanking central bow, deep eaves and central brick ridge stack. 1:2:1 bays. Bow with pair of first-floor segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements and pair of ground-floor segmental-headed horizontal-sliding glazing bar sashes. Segmental-headed 6-panelled door on left-hand bay. One- storey lean-to to semi-circular loggia with 6-bay colonnade consisting of octagonal wooden posts with plain pedestals and capitals. One-bay return front with segmental-headed 2-light wooden casements. Interior not inspected. The cottage is adjacent to the Grindley Brook Locks (not included on this list) on the Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1st edn. 1966), pp. 166-183; Edward Wilson, The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal, pp. 19-22.

Listing NGR: SJ5234642872

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