Bridge Keeper'S Lodge At Cam Bridge On Gloucester/Berkley Canal

SO 70 SW SLIMBRIDGE SLIMBRIDGE STREET 1/91 Bridge Keeper's Lodge at Cam Bridge on Gloucester/Berkeley Canal

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Canal-side lodge. Early C19. Smooth rendered, very low-pitched Welsh slate roof to cross-gabled plan: three gables as classical pediments, over continuous plain frieze except to rear (north-west) face. The slates covered with a patented paint-on weather surface. Two storeys, one window to each facade, but at canal front one storey only, because of build up of embankment. This probably an open portico originally, but now modern doors and lights set between pair Greek Doric half-columns, with Ionic fluting, and between antis. On return, right, contemporary sash with glazing bars, elsewhere modern windows, including later extension with stck, at back.

This is one of the bridge-keepers' cottages, built to serve the Gloucester-Berkeley Canal which was opened in 1827.

Listing NGR: SO7366904981