Caisson House

Caisson House is a house, likely dating from the 1830s, probably built for the Somerset Coal Canal Company. It may represent a remodelling of earlier cottages. The house is constructed of ashlar and has a 20th-century tiled roof concealed behind a parapet, which features pierced triangular cresting and a moulded cornice. It is two storeys high and consists of nine bays, with pilaster strips rising through the parapet as pedestals at the ends and between bays 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8. The windows are glazing bar sash windows set within raised panel surrounds, with canted bay windows in bays 3 and 7. A central door is located within a projecting ashlar porch, which has a moulded surround and cornice. The house is named for its proximity to the site of a caisson lock from the 1790s; this lock was the initial and innovative means of achieving the change in level on this branch of the canal.