73, FORE STREET

73, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1021591
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
73, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:
73, FORE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1021591
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:
73, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
73, FORE STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
73, FORE STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Trowbridge
National Grid Reference:
ST 85432 58040

Details

FORE STREET 1. 5411 (North West Side) No 73 (formerly listed as No 74) ST 8558 4/80 29.12.50. II GV

2. C18 front. 2 storey and attic. Painted stucco. Projecting plinth. Flat eaves. Stone tile roof. 1 dormer. 2 off ridge brick chimneys. Lead rain water hopper in angle with No 8 Wicker Hill. (qv). 2 windows in raised surrounds, no glazing bars, on 1st floor. 1 similar window on ground floor, and 6-panel door to lefthand with plain rectangular fanlight in raised stone surround and cut scroll brackets supporting flat stone hood with modillioned soffit, a curious design. The main bulk of the house is set behind No 8 Wicker Hill. Pitched paving to front. Back of house part brick (English bond); 2 tall brick stacks set in gables. 2 raised window surrounds remain, 1 for paired 1st floor window and 1 for a similar window (with lost mullion) on around floor.

Nos 65 to 68 (consec), Nos 70 to 73 (consec), railings and gates to Nos 68 and 70, dwarf stone wall to No 72, No 64 (Lloyds Bank) and Usher's Brewery Corner Block, form an outstanding group with No 8 and premises occupied by K.J. Lestor to south west of No 8 Wicker Hill.

Listing NGR: ST8543258040

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
314020
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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