NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR

NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR, 56, ROPER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247788
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:: NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR
Statutory Address:: NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR, 56, ROPER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247788
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1989
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Jan-1993
List Entry Name:: NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR, 56, ROPER STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NO 56, WITH OUTBUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSE TO REAR, 56, ROPER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitehaven
National Grid Reference:: NX 97251 18041

Details

ROPER STREET NX 9718 SW

6/185 No 56, with outbuildings and warehouse to rear GV II Shop,with storage rooms over and warehouse to rear. Early C19, probably incorporating C18 work, with later C19 additions to rear. Rendered sandstone; slate roof. Double-depth plan with lateral open-well stair (to right) and a mid-C19 refronting to frontage (left, adjoining no 55). 3 storeys. Exterior: the older 2-window front (to right) with end pilasters with composite capitals, moulded eaves cornice and sill bands to 1st and 2nd floor, the latter with decorative brackets; windows to upper floor (3 to 1st floor) with 12-pane sashes in reveals. Narrower 2-window range to left, no sill bands, sash windows in reveals with raised surrounds, one (to 2nd floor) blocked. Late C19 shop front extends across entire frontage with minimal decorations, all timber with plate- glass windows with glazing bars. Internally: considerably altered in late C19; stair with turned newels, most of the balusters now gone. Rear range (with cellars) has suspended timber-framed storerooms. Warehouse to rear, reduced in height, timber floors and slender iron columns of round section.

Listing NGR: NX9737418109

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Legacy System number:: 429162
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.