Bridgekeeper'S House On The Gloucester Sharpness Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. Bridgekeeper's house.
Bridgekeeper'S House On The Gloucester Sharpness Canal
- WRENN ID
- hidden-sentry-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bridgekeeper's house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO 60 SE HINTON PURTON
1/246 Bridgekeeper's House on the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal
II
Bridgekeepers' house. Early C19, possibly by Robert Mylne, first principal engineer to the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company. Rendered, slate roof, 2 small rendered stacks. L shape single storey, possibly originally square with shallow pediments on each side. Main front to north east facing the Canal with 2 fluted Doric columns widely spaced in antis beneath shallow pediment with plain frieze and cornice, and without bases. Doorcase at back of portico has moulded jambs and linteLand 6-panel door, top 4 fielded, lower 2 flush. Scattered fenestration, mainly small sashes, plate-glass or 16-pane. Slightly projecting plain eaves cornice on range parallel to Canal. Survey work for the original canal route from Gloucester to Berkeley was carried out by Mylne in 1793. In 1813 the terminal point was changed to Sharpness, and the canal opened in 1827. Sharpness, centenary booklet 1974, published by British Waterways Board.
Listing NGR: SO6920404208
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