Building record 395/3/1 - Dry Dock

{1} Dry dock. C.1800. Painted brick, artificial stone slate roof. 7 bays each with flat brick arch, now blocked, with 4-light casement windows with wood lintels inserted in the blocking and doorway with plank door in third bay from left. 7 skylights. Similar blocked arches at rear. Right side, partly timber boarded, has boat entrance with C20 doors. Left side has 2 brick buttresses flanking doorway with arched wooden frame and flat timber hood on brackets. Blocked windows in arched brick recesses on either side. Arched window above doorway. Interior not inspected.

{3} Two covered dry docks at the south end of the truncated line the old canal. Part of the wharf was leased from the Oxford Canal by Fellows, Morton and Clayton who built a new dock in 1901 and another, dated 1909, across the former main-line near its end. The older one has a hipped roof over very low walls. Both docks were for steam boats and originally had lantern roofs to allow fumes to escape.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/69 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2001, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage Of Northamptonshire, p.16 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN104759.

<4> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2011, A Guide To The Industrial Heritage of Northamptonshire (2nd Edition), p.18 (checked) (Gazetteer). SNN107622.

Record last edited

Jun 22 2012 9:43AM