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Description: Wharf Office, Elland Wharf at SE1068 2132

Address: Sound & Vision The Wharf Gas Works Lane Elland West Yorkshire HX5 9HH

Grade: II

Group detail: Calder And Hebble Navigation

Full description:
Office, formerly porters lodge, c1820. Regularly coursed stone with hipped stone slate roof. Single storey structure of rectangular plan. Three single brick chimney stacks spaced evenly along rear elevation. Symmetrical facade facing onto wharf yard. Central doorway with stone jambs and head flanked by single four light casement windows. All window openings have cambered arches and stone cills. Built as part of a planned wharf. One of a series of Calder and Hebble Navigation Company cottages built between 1770 - 1834. Ref: Workers' Housing in West Yorkshire 1750 - 1920, RCHM, 1986.