Lock Cottages

Lock Cottages, dated 1844, are a group of three houses originally built for canal workers. The houses are constructed of painted brick with a gabled Welsh slate roof and polygonal brick stacks rising from the ridge. They are built in a Domestic Tudor style. The front of the cottages faces the locks and has a varied pattern of windows: 1:1:3:1:1. Most windows are horned sashes with two panes per sash, set within rendered surrounds with ears. The central three-window section is recessed and features a full-height canted bay window and carved bargeboards. A continuous plat band runs along the front. There are three doorways with flat hoods and 20th-century doors in the centre, and a door in each gable end. The interior has not been inspected. The cottages are listed for their importance as canal workers’ housing and their relationship to the canal lock and industrial works at Diglis Island.