UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP

UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP, 9, HIGH STREET EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073182
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP
Statutory Address:: UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP, 9, HIGH STREET EAST

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Date:: 2002-06-20
Reference:: IOE01/06149/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1073182
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP
Statutory Address 1:: UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP, 9, HIGH STREET EAST

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: UPPINGHAM BOOKSHOP AND THE SPORTS SHOP, 9, HIGH STREET EAST

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District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Uppingham
National Grid Reference:: SP 86674 99691

Details

SP 8699-8799 UPPINGHAM HIGH STREET EAST 4/18 (north side)

10.11.55 No 9 (Uppingham Bookshop) and the sports shop (previously listed as premises adjoining Falcon Hotel to east) GV II*

House, now 2 shops. C16/C17. Ashlar with Collyweston stone slate roof with coped gables on decorative kneelers, stone end stacks. L-plan. Block to rear probably the earlier. Two storeys and attic. Moulded plinth. Block to street: ground floor has C20 carriageway to left and shop front by Albert Richardson to right. First floor has 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullioned window to left and 2 6/6 sash windows in architraves formed of reused ovolo mullions, the right-hand south window replacing part of mullioned window of which 3 lights survive to right. Two 2-light gabled dormers. Block to rear has central gable and 2 and 3-light mullioned windows, some with cornice over, above C20 shop front. Stair turret in angle with coped gable and mullioned windows, some blocked. From first floor level the original newel stair of solid oak treads survives (lower part of stair has been removed but the treads appear to have been reused to form cellar stair at rear). Larger first floor room of front block has fine jowled stone fireplace with Tudor arch in square surround. Smaller first floor room to west has early stained glass window of small panes set in geometrically patterned leading. Sometime public house (The King's Head, later The White Hynde).

Listing NGR: SP8667499691

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Legacy System number:: 186755
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.