2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE, 83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH STREET
2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022637
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE, 83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022637
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE, 83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2, 4 AND 6, DAWSON SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 83, 85 AND 87, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84331 33007
Details
BURNLEY
SD8433SW CHURCH STREET 906-1/10/27 (East side) 29/09/77 Nos.83, 85 AND 87
GV II
Includes: Nos.2, 4 AND 6 DAWSON SQUARE. Block of 6 small town houses, Nos 83-87 and No.2 Dawson Square now integrated as showroom/offices. Dated 1837 over corner; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof hipped over the corner. L-plan on corner site, No.83 occupying the corner and the others all formerly double-depth and single-fronted (Nos 83-87 remodelled). 3 storeys and cellars, 1+1+1 windows to Church Street, a splayed corner, and 1+1+2+1 windows to Dawson Square; with a moulded gutter cornice carried round and a small pediment over the corner dated "1837" in raised lettering. At ground floor No.83 has a corner doorway with plain surround and altered door, and in each side-wall a large vertical rectangular window with plain surround and shutter lugs; Nos 85 and 87 both formerly had similar openings with doorways to the left, but No.85 now has a greatly enlarged C20 window replacing both the doorway and the original window (re-using the jambs of the former doorway). The windows at 1st floor are vertical-rectangular and those at 2nd floor square, all with raised sills, plain surrounds and C20 glazing (15 and 9 panes respectively). Nos 2 and 4 Dawson Square have doorways flanking a through-lobby doorway and No.6 has a doorway at the right-hand; No.4 has a 16-pane sashed window at ground floor, 2 similar windows at 1st floor and two 9-pane sashes at 2nd floor, and No.6 has one window on each floor with top-hung casements imitating this pattern; all these openings with surrounds like those to Church Street. Large rectangular corniced ridge chimneys. Rear and INTERIORS not inspected. Forms a group with Nos 89-91 Church Street (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8433133007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467008
- 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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