Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, With Decorative Cobbled Paving
BANK COURT, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087173
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, With Decorative Cobbled Paving
- Statutory Address:
- BANK COURT, THE SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087173
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Court P Smith's Bookshop Town Close, With Decorative Cobbled Paving
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK COURT, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- P SMITH'S BOOKSHOP, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 3:
- TOWN CLOSE, WITH DECORATIVE COBBLED PAVING, THE SQUARE
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:
- BANK COURT, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- P SMITH'S BOOKSHOP, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN CLOSE, WITH DECORATIVE COBBLED PAVING, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lower Allithwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 37820 78753
Details
LOWER ALLITHWAITE THE SQUARE SD 3778 (South side) Cartmel 8/106 P. Smith's bookshop 25.3.70 and Bank Court (formerly listed as Martins Bank) and Town Close, with decorative cobbled paving G.V. II Shop and 2 houses. Early and late C18. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, one bay. Ground floor has C20 bow window recessed in opening; 1st floor has 4-light casement. 2 cross-axial stacks. Entrance to left return in entry to National Westminster Bank (q.v.). Rear has segmental-headed windows, sashed with glazing bars and entrance up steps with bracketed canopy and 6-fielded-panel door. Town Close adjacent to left of 3 bays; sashed windows with glazing bars, those to ground floor segmental headed; entrance has bracketed canopy and 6-fielded-panel door. Patterned cobbled paving to front.
Listing NGR: SD3782078753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77020
- 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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