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Owen Street, ATHERSTONE, CV9 1DG

Grade II listed. Listing number 1365147.

Opened on 27 March 1856.

This is the main council office for NWBC, on South Street

The postal address is Long Street, but the office actually fronts onto Coleshill Street.

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.

In the public car park on the corner of Long Street and Woolpack Way is this "Recycling Centre". It illustrates only too dramatically the problem that while the public are continually exhorted to recycle, the facilities themselves are all too frequently inadequate. It is surprising that North Warwickshire District Council or their contractor have not emptied these containers, particularly as this is the time of year when they are likely to be used the most!

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?

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

This is the Coventry Canal in Atherstone, south-east of Coleshill Road Bridge, No 41.