53, HIGH STREET
53, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027945
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 53, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, HIGH STREET
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- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06667/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1027945
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 53, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, HIGH 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:
- 53, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Arun (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arundel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 01841 07120
Details
1. 5401 HIGH STREET (West Side) ---------- No 53 TQ 0107 1/156
II GV
2. 1899-1900. Architects Wheeler and Lodge of Horsham and London. Newspaper office. Ashlar ground floor. Brick 1st floor. Applied timber and pebbledash 2nd floor. Pitched tile roof. 6 hexagonal red brick chimneys linked by an elaborate cornice. 3 storeys and attics. Groundfloor glazed with moulded wooden mullions with grotesque label stops, moulded wooden segment-arched transoms, and lead glazing bars. 2 12-panelled doors, central one with upper 6 panels glazed, both with dentilled cornices and brass art nouveau handles . Projecting ashlar cornice with strapwork cartouche, giving date of establishment (1853). 1st floor has 2 oblong bays with mullion and transom windows, casements with lead glazing bars, and a dentilled cornice. 2nd floor jettied on elaborate consoles (diamond facets, strapwork, triglyphs and mutules all featured). Close-spaced studs, with elaborate terms at either end, carrying 2 more consoles, identical to the others. 3 projecting bays, central one segmental, flanking 2 canted, and taken on consoles, all with lead glazing bars and dentilled cornices. Attic storey jettied; embattled bressummer. Close studded, with central term, strapwork bargeboard and baluster finial. On ground floor is remarkable late C19 office interior. Front and back walls glazed, site walls covered in glazed tiles. High desks with embattled parapets all round, and elaborate brass racks and desks for keeping ledgers.
Nos 51 to 67 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ0181907137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297181
- 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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