Conway House (Premises of RG Bolam and Son)
CONWAY HOUSE (PREMISES OF RG BOLAM AND SON), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041942
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Conway House (Premises of RG Bolam and Son)
- Statutory Address:
- CONWAY HOUSE (PREMISES OF RG BOLAM AND SON), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041942
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Conway House (Premises of RG Bolam and Son)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONWAY HOUSE (PREMISES OF RG BOLAM AND SON), 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:
- CONWAY HOUSE (PREMISES OF RG BOLAM AND SON), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 05631 01735
Details
ROTHBURY HIGH STREET NU 0501 (North side) 25/290 Conway House (premises of R.G. Bolam & Sons) GV II
House with ground floor shop, dated 1876, with early C19 rear wing. Tooled ashlar; rear wing squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys + attic, 5 windows. Ground floor has ornamental timber cornice broken forward above pilasters flanking shopfront on left and yard entrance on right; twin basket-arched shop windows have moulded stone plinth and flanking fluted and twisted cast-iron uprights; central pair of half-glazed doors. Yard entrance has panelled double gates, the upper parts open with ornamental wrought-iron screenwork, and 3-pane overlight. lst floor has moulded sill and impost bands and arched windows; archivolts have keystones with incised ornament, the central dated. 2nd floor has moulded bands below aprons and at impost level of basket-arched windows. Moulded eaves cornice on large paired brackets. 2 timber roof dormers with moulded 3-centred arches. Coped gables on shaped foot stones; truncated end stacks. All windows plain sashes.
3-bay wing to rear left with renewed 12-pane sashes in alternating-block surrounds. Included for group value; altered L-plan range at end of wing is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU0563101735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236636
- 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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