Canal Warehouse

The Canal Warehouse, built in 1787 with later alterations in the 19th century and 1914, is a brick structure topped with Welsh slate roofs, rising one to four storeys. It features an extensive frontage along Leicester Row with varying roof heights and a dentil eaves cornice.

From left to right, the elevation begins with a section that has two altered basket arched openings and a segmental arched window at the ground floor. The upper floors display two pairs of giant round-arched panels, which contain three tiers of horizontal strip windows and round-arched windows above. Next is a gabled bay with a keyed segmental arched entrance and a keyed lunette window. To the right, a slightly lower section includes a large segmental arched entrance flanked by smaller segmental arched entrances, with three segmental arched windows above and five round-arched windows above that. All of these windows feature iron casements. The lower section to the right has two tiers of segmental arched windows with lunette windows above, arranged in groups of three, six, and three, separated by large segmental arched entrances. The lowest range on the right repeats the tripartite motif of segmental arched entrances flanked by blind half segmental arches.

The rear elevation faces the canal basin and was under scaffolding for renovation at the time of inspection. It has a projecting canopy that continues the pitch of the main roof, along with various basket arched doorways and windows.

The Warehouse is located adjacent to the canal basin of the Coventry Canal Navigation, which was completed in 1769 by James Brindley.