Description

SK 11 SW ALREWAS TRENT AND MERSEY
CANAL (North side)

3/10005 Fradley Junction
Ivy Leigh and attached
cottages
GV II

Terrace of 3 canal workers' cottages. Red brick with slate roofs. Built in 2 separate stages around the early C19. 2 storey, double pile, fronting onto canal. Single fronted cottage (probably earlier phase) to left. Entrance to left with semicircular headed lintel and fanlight. 12-light sash windows. It has been rebuilt and possibly extended to rear. 2 symmetrical, double-fronted cottages to right. Central entrances (C20 wooden porch to right-hand cottage, Ivy Leigh). 12-light sash windows with stone lintels at ground floor level. 2 ridge chimney stacks and one end stack to right side. The Trent and Mersey Canal was built between 1766 and 1777 by James Brindley and Hugh Henshall. The cottages form part of a group of early buildings at the junction with the Coventry Canal (passed by Act of Parliament in 1768) and are listed for group value.
Charles Hadfield, The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)
Jean Lindsay, The Trent and Mersey Canal (1979)

Listing NGR: SK1408414058

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530430

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990