Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Inn on the Wharf

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 15 Feb 2015

Burnley Wharf is a fine collection of nineteenth century stone and grey slate canal side warehouses and workshops. This complex has been sensitively brought back into use as the Inn on the Wharf, the Weavers’ Triangle Visitor Centre (occupying the former Toll and Wharf Master’s House) and office accommodation. At Manchester Road Wharf on the northern side of the canal, there is a group of three warehouses each of a different age and style. On the right hand side, nearest the camera at SD8387 3228 there is a two-storey stone warehouse. It was built parallel to the canal allowing direct unloading from the barges using catshead cranes. This was converted into a bar and restaurant (Inn on the Wharf) when the wharf was restored in the 1990s. It is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 467117 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-467117-south-warehouse-to-rear-of-wharf-masters British Listed Buildings) Further along the wharf are two more warehouses, dating from the early to mid-19th century. A single-storey building at SD8386 3230 and, behind that, a four-storey building at SD8383 3232. These are both open fronted structures, built at right angles to the canal, with a very prominent full-width canopy carried on 4 full-height cast-iron columns. They are both grade II listed buildings (English Heritage Building ID: 467115 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-467115-centre-warehouse-to-rear-of-wharf-master and English Heritage Building ID: 467116 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-467116-north-warehouse-to-rear-of-wharf-masters British Listed Buildings).

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