Double Locks Cottage

MATERIALS: built of red brick, now rendered and painted, under a plain tiled roof with a gable brick stack that has been raised.

PLAN: a three-bay cottage of two-room plan, with an attached lean-to, formerly a shed, to the east gable end that was added in 1789, and a lean-to addition to the rear. The windows are small-paned timber casements, though some are C20 replacements.

EXTERIOR: the building is of two storeys, and its north (front) elevation, which is symmetrical, fronts onto the canal. It has a central doorway with a plank door and an open timber-gabled porch that appears to be a later addition. To either side of the entrance is a window, with three further windows to the first floor, all under segmental-arched heads. The date '1784' is inscribed above the central window. There is also a segmental-arched attic window to the west end. To the far left (east), in the north wall of the lean-to is a wide doorway that has been blocked.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDARY FEATURES: to the rear of the cottage is a small brick building with a pantile roof and a brick stack to the south gable end. It is said to have a plank door and small windows, with a stone-flagged floor to the interior. It has been suggested that this may have been the sentinel box for the first lock keeper.