Birmingham And Fazeley Canal Junction House

The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Junction House is a house built around 1840. It is constructed of brick with ashlar and plaster dressings and features a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. The building has an L-plan layout and is two storeys high, presenting a symmetrical three-window range that includes a large full-height canted bay. A cornice runs along the top of the structure. The entrance, located on the right side of the bay, features a doorcase with a consoled cornice and a six-fielded-panel door. The ground floor windows have rusticated wedge lintels with keystones above 12-pane sash windows, while the bay has a tripartite window with a frieze and cornice above horned sashes arranged in a pattern of 8:12:8 panes. On the first floor, there are 9-pane sashes, and the bay has a tripartite window with 6:12:6-pane sashes. An iron plate displaying the number 261 is positioned between the windows of the bay. The house has a cross-axial stack in the bay and two stacks at the rear. This Junction House is situated at the intersection of the Coventry Canal with the Fazeley to Birmingham and Fazeley to Whittington branches of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and it may have functioned as a toll house at this significant junction.