Birmingham And Fazeley Canal Junction House

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SK20SW BIRMINGHAM AND FAZELEY CANAL 670-1/4/27 (North side) 06/05/88 Fazeley Junction House

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House. c1840. Brick with ashlar and plaster dressings; hipped slate roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with large full-height canted bay. Top cornice. Entrance to right return of bay has doorcase with consoled cornice and 6-fielded-panel door. Windows to ground floor have rusticated wedge lintels with keystones over 12-pane sashes, bay has tripartite window with frieze and cornice over 8:12:8-pane horned sashes; 1st floor has 9-pane sashes with tripartite window to bay with 6:12:6-pane sashes (12-pane=4/8). Iron plate with number: 261 between windows to bay. Cross-axial stack to bay and 2 stacks to rear. Junction House stands at the junction of the Coventry Canal with the Fazeley to Birmingham and Fazeley to Whittington branches of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and may have served as a toll house at this important junction. (Inland Waterways Histories: Broadbridge SR: Birmingham Canal Navigations Vol I: 1768-1846: London: 1974-: P.41-45; Canals of the British Isles: Hadfield C: Canals of the East Midlands: 1966-: P.23-24).

Listing NGR: SK2034902022