492 AND 494, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073547
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: 492 AND 494, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address:: 492 AND 494, MARKET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073547
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: 492 AND 494, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 492 AND 494, MARKET STREET

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:: 492 AND 494, MARKET STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitworth
National Grid Reference:: SD 88594 18203

Details

SD 81 NE WHITWORTH MARKET STREET (East side)

11/245 Nos. 492 and 494 - GV II

Two cottages, No. 492 dated 1794 above door, now all one club (Whitworth Vale and Healey Band Club). Watershot course thin sandstone rubble, colour washed, with vertical joint between the two, slate roof with ridge chimney stack at junction. Double-depth plan, each one bay and 2 storeys; doorways to right with plain surrounds; No. 492 has one stepped triple-light window on each floor, No. 494 has similar windows but that at ground floor now has flat head; all windows have glazing bars making 4 panes in the side lights and 2 leaves in the centre. Above door of No. 492 is rectangular datestone inscribed M . A M 1794

Listing NGR: SD8859418203

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Legacy System number:: 185824
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.