Shropshire Union Canal Roving Bridge House

A toll keeper's cottage, now a farmhouse, dating to around 1800 and built on the Ellesmere Canal, designed by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. The cottage is constructed of red brick in an English bond, with a pyramidal slate roof with wide eaves and a central brick stack topped with ceramic chimney pots. It follows a square plan, with two storeys facing the canal and a semi-basement at the rear. The canal-facing elevation includes blind round windows on the first floor, flanked by a 19th-century casement window directly below the eaves. The ground floor has a segmental-headed horizontal sliding sash window to the left and a 19th-century casement to the right, alongside an original gabled brick porch with a boarded door and a semi-circular fanlight. The semi-basement contains exposed ceiling joists and three round-headed doorways with original plank doors. The building is situated at the junction of the main line of the former Ellesmere Canal and its Prees branch. The Ellesmere Canal Company merged with the Chester Canal Company in 1813 and subsequently became part of the Shropshire Union in 1846.