Listed Building: Old Wharf Farmhouse and attached outbuilding (4/142)

House, formerly farmhouse. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rendered brick, wood shingle roof, rendered brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 3-unit plan. Central part-glazed plank door with stop-chamfered wood lintel. 3-light C20 casement windows to ground floor left and right with wood lintels. Old 3-light casement windows to 1st floor left and right and similar 2-light casement to 1st floor centre, all with stop-chamfered wood lintels. Lintels to 3-light casements to 1st floor and to ground floor left have wood "keyblocks". Single-storey former outbuilding to left originally consisting of 2-bay cart standing and granary above and small single-storey weigh-house to right with lean-to slate roof. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with bressumer. Old quarry tile floors. The building is said to have also been a public house serving the wharf on the Grand Union Canal near which it stands. The weigh-bridge of 1884 by Pooleys of Liverpool still exists.

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Jul 16 2021 3:09PM