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Coleshill Road, ATHERSTONE, CV9 1BT

Grade II listed. Listing number 1365147.

Grade II listed. Listing number 1299864. The house was constructed sometime between 1771 and 1790, as the house and offices for the wharfinger at adjacent Atherstone Wharf, a coal wharf at what was then the termination of the Coventry Canal. The wharf was constructed in 1771, and the house appears to date from this period or shortly afterwards; it appears on the earliest map of the canal, circa 1790, as Queen Anne House, and was named as the house of Richard Pipes. The earliest phase, which was T-shaped on plan, was extended by the addition of a single-storey, one-bay extension to the front of the building in the mid-C19, and a single-storey extension to the south was added at roughly the same period. The rear was extended by the addition of a relatively narrow outshut in the later C19, and a further addition was made to the rear in the early C20. The building continued in use as a wharfinger's house throughout the C19

No motorist wants to find themselves approaching this - a 4-way temporary traffic light control just as it turns red. Oddly, there is no obvious sign of any roadworks - and how is the blue car turning into Westwood Road from the opposite direction?

Opened on 27 March 1856.

This has been a pub certainly since around 1817, possibly earlier. They are fond of lions in this area. Atherstone has this White Lion, plus the Red Lion Hotel and nearby at Witherley is the Blue Lion Inn. Next door to The White Lion, on the left, is Atherstone House, a Chinese Take Away. On the other side is Winnie's Cafe.

On the Coventry Canal.

Atherstone Top Lock, No 1. On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790. Jo urner writes:

Atherstone Top Lock, No 1. On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790.

Atherstone Top Lock, No 1. On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven locks lowers (or raises) the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790.