Building record 0411910000 - BULBOURNE, NW OF BRIDGE

Summary

Mid-nineteenth century canal workshop and later water tower on the Grand Union Canal at Bulbourne

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1319241: WORKSHOP WITH WATER TOWER 60 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF CANAL BRIDGE

Map

Type and Period (2)

  • WORKSHOP (Built about 1848, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • WATER TOWER (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Canal workshop. Circa 1848. Yellow-brown brick with white brick window heads and arches. Eaves band course, minimal corner pilasters. Slate roof. One storey. Front to canal has 5 windows with segmental heads, 2 to right with cast iron glazing bars, remainder wider and with narrow vertical glazing bars. Right gable has openings with semi-circular arched heads: central double doors with radiating fanlight, flanking windows with wooden glazing bars, and smaller window in gable. Lean-to to rear. N. corner of left gable has later C19 water tower of 3 stages, the lower rendered and whitewashed, the 2 upper stages of brown brick with red brick corner piers, cornices and window surrounds. Pyramidal roof of fishscale tiles with splayed eaves on shaped wooden brackets. Openings with semi-circular heads to lower stages, upper stage with round windows (B7).

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC5981 Bibliographic reference: HADFIELD C 1966 CANALS OF THE EAST MIDLANDS P270.
  • <2>SBC5213 Bibliographic reference: FAULKNER A H 1972 GRAND JUNCTION CANAL.
  • <3>SBC6637 Bibliographic reference: INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY RECORD CARDS.
  • <4>SBC12006 Verbal communication: PIKE A R DEC 1977.
  • <5>SBC10448 Map: OS 1971 1:2500 MAP.
  • <6>SBC12183 Unpublished document: PIKE A R (BCM) NOV 1991 FIELD VISIT.
  • <7>SBC19041 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1984. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p40.

Location

Grid reference SP 93290 13700 (point)
Civil Parish MARSWORTH, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (13)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13593)

Record last edited

Feb 12 2023 2:15PM

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