Description

BURNLEY

SD83SW LOWERHOUSE LANE, Rose Grove
906-1/3/239 (West side)
29/09/77 Warehouse and Canal Cottage at
Dugdale Wharf
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWERHOUSE LANE
Canal Cottage)
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWERHOUSE LANE
Warehouse adjoining Canal Cottage)

II

Canal warehouse, now workshop, with attached cottage. Probably
mid C19; altered. Sandstone random rubble, the cottage
slobbered, with stone slate roofs. The warehouse is
rectangular in plan, on an east-west axis parallel to and
adjoining the canal, and the cottage is a full-height outshut
to its south side, under a carried-down roof.
EXTERIOR: the warehouse is 2 storeys, with a gabled 2-window
east front which is symmetrical, has an altered wagon doorway
in the centre of the ground floor (now closed by sliding
doors), a large round-headed loading doorway above this with
quoined jambs, plain voussoirs and double board doors; 2 small
square windows on each floor, all with plain sills and lintels
and the upper with very small panes; and, attached to the
right-hand corner, the shaft of a wooden jib crane. Its north
side (overlooking the canal) has loading doorways like that at
the front on both floors of the 1st bay, and 2 small square
windows on each floor beyond those, that to the right at 1st
floor blocked and the others with 6-pane glazing.
INTERIOR has 2 rows of cast-iron columns, and queen-post roof
trusses.
The cottage has a small altered single-storey porch to the
front and a small sashed window above; its south side has a
doorway to the left with a small gabled wooden porch, a 4-pane
sashed window to the right, a small sashed window without
glazing bars above the doorway, and a tall side-wall chimney
to the right. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8152232651

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537463

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