Gilbey House is the large white building on the south side of the canal by Southampton Bridge,  the former Bottle Warehouse built by William Hucks. Next to the building frontage onto Jamestown Road, at Nos.34-36, is a very large ice well built in 1839 at the head of William Leftwich’s basin (now filled in), and deepened in c1846 to 100 feet (30 m) to hold about 2400 tons of ice. There is an information panel at the site.

The lock keeper’s cottage on the south bank is now the Regent’s Canal Information Centre and dates from c1816. It was extended and altered c1975.

The stone parapets and cast iron handrails of the roving bridge are scarred by the tow ropes of barges drawn by horses out of the lock and under the bridge which takes the towpath back onto the northern side of the canal. The scarring occurred because sand/silt from the canal picked up by cotton ropes, which sink in water, abraded the iron and stonework of canal structures.
For more information see our history pages on Regents Canal,  and Gilbeys