Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1225
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/1989
Date of Amendment
22/12/1989
Name of Property
Canal Museum
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llangollen
Town
Locality
Easting
321491
Northing
342263
Street Side
Location
On the towpath immediately to W of the modern road bridge over the canal. Land falls away steeply to rear.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The 6-mile long Llangollen canal had been proposed as early as 1791 as a branch of the canal that was to link Rivers Mersey and Dee with the River Severn. The Act was passed in 1793 with this section constructed under the direction of Thomas Telford. The purpose of the Llangollen branch was primarily that of a feeder to supply the main Ellesmere Canal drawing water off the River Dee at Horseshoe Falls. Work was begun in 1804 and completed in 1808 and in addition provided transport to the slate quarries and the limestone works. In 1846 it became part of the Shropshire Union Railways Company but the following year was taken over by the LNWR. Transport on the canal diminished in late C19 with arrival of the railways and then ceased by 2nd World War. The canal was only kept open because of its importance as a supplier of water to the Shropshire Union Canal, the steam engines at Chester Station and some houses in the Crewe area. Over 6 million gallons a day are metered into the canal at Horseshoe Falls.
This rubble warehouse building at the Llangollen Wharf probably dates from the construction of the canal (1804-8). Later heightened and extended in red brick.
Exterior
2-storey to centre with slate roof and dentil brick cornice. Full height double boarded doors to centre; window to left below bucket rack. Rubble lean-to at the left with boarded door under cambered arch, modern window on left end. Single storey brick range to right with broad camber headed entry and modern dormer. Modern ticket office to right end and casement windows amd modern additions to rear. Crane on wharf quay.
Interior
Reason for designation
T Pellow and P Bowen, "Canal to Llangollen", (1988).
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