Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8598 ASHTON CANAL, Beswick And Clayton
698-1/17/508 Lock-keeper's cottage beside Lock
No.2 at Islington Branch junction
basin

GV II

Lock-keeper's cottage. c.1800, altered. Brown brick in English
garden wall bond, slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan,
plus small extension at right-hand corner. Basement and 2
storeys (on sloped site, 3 storeys at rear), a 3-window range;
doorway to left of 3rd window, with altered door and painted
lintel; windows with raised stone sills and altered glazing,
those at ground floor segmental-headed; single-storey lean-to
addition at right-hand end. Ridge chimney between 1st and 2nd
windows, gable chimney to the right. Right-hand return wall
has segmental-headed basement doorway beside lean-to; lower
part of rear corner at this end is slightly chamfered and has
stone quoin reinforcement against chafing of tow-ropes
(tow-path passing round building from lock to bridge); rear
has segmental-headed basement doorway near this corner, and 2
widely-spaced windows on each floor. Interior not inspected.
Forms group with Lock No.[2] to east (q.v.) and Towpath Bridge
over Islington Branch to west (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8536898227

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568840

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)