Former canal roundhouse on the disused Thames & Severn Canal near Marston Meysey

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Former canal roundhouse on the disused Thames & Severn Canal near Marston Meysey

Image: © Vieve Forward Taken: 16 Feb 2013

Grade II Listed former canal roundhouse on the disused Thames & Severn Canal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_and_Severn_Canal near Marston Meysey, (see also Image]). The roundhouse http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-317896-round-house-marston-maisey- is one of five famous former lengthsmen’s cottages on the Thames & Severn Canal. It was built circa 1790. Although the listing describes it as being constructed of pebbledashed brick with limestone dressings to doors and windows, a survey for the Cotswold Canals Project says that it was built of rendered rubblestone with ashlar band courses at the upper floor levels. This photograph shows the ‘Gothic’-style windows. http://www.cotswoldcanalsproject.org/_documents/2_HS_241-258_Marston_Meysey_Bridge.pdf It originally had a funnel-shaped lead roof to channel rainwater for use in the cottage. The ground floor was used for stabling, with the upper two for living accommodation. There is a fireplace on the first floor and a staircase to the top floor within the wall thickness. When the canal company no longer needed the building after the lengthsman had been transferred to a new house at Eisey Lock in 1831 (see Image]), the roundhouse became derelict. Out of the picture on the other side of the roundhouse is Marston Meysey bridge, a Grade II Listed accommodation bridge http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-317897-marston-meysey-bridge-marston-maisey- over the disused Thames & Severn Canal (see also Image]). In 1986 an 'extension' was added to the roundhouse. Both bridge and roundhouse are now in the grounds of private property, and the footpath has long since been re-routed around them. http://www.cotswoldcanals.net/rh_mm.php At the time of my visit, the only viable public footpath in the vicinity was this one running south to them from the road and around the north-east of the property.

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