53-59, NEWTOWN
53-59, NEWTOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036094
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 53-59, NEWTOWN
- Statutory Address:
- 53-59, NEWTOWN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036094
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 53-59, NEWTOWN
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53-59, NEWTOWN
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:
- 53-59, NEWTOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8239061006
Details
1. NEWTOWN
5411 (North Side)
Nos 53 to 59 (consec)
ST 8261 1/38 7.11.63.
ST 8260 2/38
II* GV
2.
Row of C17 or early C18 gabled houses, with stone-tiled roofs and eaves
projecting between gables. Windows under wood lintels generally 2-light
wood casements with glazing bars, but some are leaded. Some sash windows.
One house (No 58) with projecting wooden bay on ground floor carried
on wood brackets. Houses are 2 storey - attics and each has a plain square-headed
door opening to side of frontage. Weathered strings at 1st floor and
2nd floor levels and at base of gable pediments. Blocked oval "bulls-eyes"
in most gables. No 53 differs from remainder in being of lower elevation
and in having a central doorway and central gable with 2-light leaded
wooden casement. Other windows are 3-light casements on 1st floor and
4-light casements on ground floor all with moulded stone mullions and
dripmoulds. Grade II* for group value.
Nos 52 to No 62 and 62B (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: ST8239061006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312649
- 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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