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Latitude: 51.3805 / 51°22'49"N
Longitude: -2.3492 / 2°20'57"W
OS Eastings: 375792
OS Northings: 164662
OS Grid: ST757646
Mapcode National: GBR 0QJ.DWF
Mapcode Global: VH96M.7KFK
Plus Code: 9C3V9MJ2+58
Entry Name: Top Lock Cottage
Listing Date: 11 August 1972
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395954
English Heritage Legacy ID: 511363
ID on this website: 101395954
Location: Bathwick, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Cottage
KENNET and AVON CANAL
656-1/0/0 (West side)
Top Lock Cottage
11/08/72
GV II
Canal keeper's cottage. c1810 altered late C20.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front, rubblestone to rest, restored hipped pantile roof with moulded ridge stacks with two diagonally set shafts to left, one to right.
PLAN: Two-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: Single storey, symmetrical four-window range. To each side are wide bracketed eaves over plain raised dripmoulds and square surrounds to three-light pointed-arched blind windows, that to centre of right hand side glazed. Central bay steps forward to meet eaves, raised surround to pointed-arched doorcase flanked by similar smaller glazed windows.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised in 1794, opened 1810. The Engineer in Charge was John Rennie. The picturesque architectural treatment of this cottage may have been insisted upon by the Bathwick Estate, whose surveyor, John Pinch, may have been involved in the design. A second such cottage is located north of Sydney Gardens.
SOURCE: K.R. Clew, The Kennet & Avon Canal (Newton Abbot 1968).
Listing NGR: ST7579264662
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