House by top lock, Devizes
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House by top lock, Devizes
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 17 Mar 2018
A grade II listed building described as 'Circa 1830 adjacent to canal and probably built in connection with it.' There is certainly some doubt about the canal connection. It is built square with the road, not the canal, and if the date is right, built about twenty years after the canal became a through route here. It is not a typical lock keeper's cottage, but on the other hand, one would be expected at the top lock of a major flight on the canal. The right corner looks as if it had been something like a toll office.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.354374
Longitude
-2.000382