It was a fence not a house. It was a nature strip tree , and the council came and dealt with it after the junk doco.
not a fricking great 1870s canal cutting.
we lived in brinklow for some time, that cutting has always been wet, unstable and a liability.
It always appeared to hold together by tree roots, and luck. The repaired towing path narrowed a shallow channel and pushed boats nearer the off towpath side.
course in the end it was vandalism that did for it, not a hasty bit of cutting a new canal as part of the shortening scheme.
Original line goes nowhere near the cutting.