Warehouse on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Nelson
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Warehouse on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Nelson
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 19 Mar 2015
This canal warehouse, dating from ca 1876, was one of 9 new warehouses built for the Leeds-Liverpool Canal Company between 1874 and 1879 at various places between Leeds and Liverpool. The three storey warehouse is of red brick in English bond, with sandstone quoins and dressings plinth of large dressed sandstone blocks, and slate roof. It has an almost rectangular plan, lying parallel to and immediately adjoining the canal. There is a pitched canopy at 1st-floor. The right-hand gable wall of has altered two-stage loading doors served by an iron crane mounted on the quay and-attached to front corner of the warehouse. It is a grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 448306 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-448306-leeds-and-liverpool-canal-warehouse-nels British Listed Buildings). See also Image], Image] and Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.83823
Longitude
-2.219398