Listed Building: THE CLOCK WAREHOUSE (1334673)

Former corn warehouse, converted c.1970 to museum and tea rooms, now public house. 1780. Red brick with brick and stone dressings and red plain tile roof with central louvred vent, projecting hoist roof to north, and stepped eaves band. Four storeys and five bays with wide slightly advanced, gabled central bay. East elevation has a full width segmental brick arch with stone hoodmould and key-block to centre bay flanked by segment headed door cases with plank doors, that to north with an insurance plaque over. Beyond to either side there are three storey segment headed hoist doorway with timber lintels at floor levels, now completely glazed. Above the central arch is a fixed small pane window below a flat brick arch with stone key-block and to either side there are similar segment headed windows. Similar windows in same arrangement above with a small oval painted plaque below the central window, inscribed '1780'. Above again there is a similar window to the central bay with its keystone running into a plain band across the gable at eaves level and to either side there are two flat headed 2-light windows below the eaves. Below the central window is a large painted sign inscribed 'From the Trent to the Mersey' and above in the gable there is another painted sign inscribed 'Navigation'. Over this is a clock face set in a circular stone surround. North elevation has a two storey segment headed hoist doorway to first and second floors with a small segment headed window above, and the hoist over. West elevation similar to eastern elevation except outer bays have segment headed windows instead of large doorways. Interior has the original floors and timbers. One of the earliest in a series of canal warehouses, built after the completion of the Trent and Mersey Canal when Shardlow was a thriving inland port. The building had its own spur from the canal to enable narrow boats to get right into the building to unload, via the central arch.