Former Customs House

Former Customs House, 7, Queen’s Terrace, Fleetwood

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072398
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Former Customs House
Statutory Address:
Former Customs House, 7, Queen’s Terrace, Fleetwood
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072398
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Former Customs House
Statutory Address 1:
Former Customs House, 7, Queen’s Terrace, Fleetwood

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Former Customs House, 7, Queen’s Terrace, Fleetwood

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Wyre (District Authority)
Parish:
Fleetwood
National Grid Reference:
SD 34049 48088

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 December 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

SD 3448
2/41

QUEEN'S TERRACE
No 7
Former Customs House

(Formerly listed as No 7 (Wyre Borough Treasurer's and Borough Housing Departments)

GV
II

1836. Architect Decimus Burton. Built originally as the Customs' House, and the first building in the town. Subsequently the Town Hall, Roughcast. Two storeys. Moulded eaves cornice. Blocking course. Elaborate ornamental iron cresting over south part, with finials at corners. Eight ranges of sashes. North three break forward. South five have moulded surrounds, those on ground floor with moulded cornices. Two Tuscan porches with full entablature, that to north with square columns and closed sides, that to south with round columns and open sides with cast iron railings. South porch has sane cast iron cresting as cornice. Step up to porches, with flanking cast iron railings with spear finials, continued across front.

Listing NGR: SD3404948088

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
184767
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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