Lock Cottage

SO 72 NW OXENHALL -

3/189 Lock Cottage

II

House: probably early C19, for the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal. English-bond brickwork, slate roof. Three-window, 1 room deep, 2-storey, with single-storey extension on left. Pilaster buttresses, one brick wide, rise ground to eaves either side windows and doors, widening at window sill and lintel level on ground floor, lintel level only first floor. Buttresses wider each side front door, without widening at sill level. Central door, plywood finish, covered simple gabled timber porch, corrugated-iron roof. Six-pane sash windows each side, ground floor, stone sill and lintel. Four-pane wide sashes first floor, with blind window in centre, stone sills and lintels. Moulded brick course at eaves, forms string course across gable. Flat wide soffit to eaves, wide verge: small rear chimney. Ply door with buttresses each side to right of centre in extension: clipped eaves and verge. Sole surviving lock keeper's house in area, on canal closed in 1880's for conversion to railway. (C. Hadfield, The Canals of South Wales and the Border, 1960.)

Listing NGR: SO7133626682