Description

STOURPORT ON SEVERN

SO8171SW ENGINE LANE
589-1/9/15 (North East side)
Canal Maintenance Buildings and Lock
Cottage

GV II

Canal maintenance building, formerly iron warehouse, and
adjoining dwelling. c1776 but extended in early C19. Painted
brick with Welsh slate roof. Original warehouse range to north
is 2-storeyed, though largely open to roof and with an
inserted floor in part of the structure. 3 bays with
round-arched central doorway and casement windows with
cambered brick heads in north elevation. Curved corner to NW.
Coped SE gable with blocked oculus. Extended towards the south
circa 1800, in a hipped roofed wing with rounded corners, and
wide casement windows in south elevation (one blocked). Early
C19 added wing adjoining and parallel with this, probably
always in domestic use, has paired windows with flat arched
heads. Blocked doorway between the wings, the present doorway
in added porch to west. NW elevation of warehouse has giant
opening now partly glazed. Dentilled eaves bands throughout.
Interior of northern range has king-post roof with 6 trusses
radiating from a single pilaster, spanning the full height
curved space.

Listing NGR: SO8104271067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580394

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)