Cotswold Book Shop
COTSWOLD BOOK SHOP, THE SQUARE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088783
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Cotswold Book Shop
- Statutory Address:
- COTSWOLD BOOK SHOP, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088783
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Cotswold Book Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTSWOLD BOOK SHOP, 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:
- COTSWOLD BOOK SHOP, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1912825775
Details
1.
5224 THE SQUARE
(west side)
Cotswold Book Shop
(formerly listed as
Cotswold Book Shop
(north of Church Street on
west side))
SP 1925 NW 2/4 25.8.60
II GV
2.
Dated 1697. Coursed squared rubble with chamfered quoins, Cotswold stone roof.
Two storeys and attic. Modern shopfront. First floor has one 2-light stone mullion
and transom casement with rusticated surround, and one C19 paired casement with central
mullion and keyed heads. Steeply pitched roof with moulded stone verge and kneelers.
Three gabled dormers. Rear wing with higher roof line. Return to south has a
rusticated cross-mullion window, similar to one on the first floor in front, and part
of another in the gable.
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Datestone above first floor right hand window inscribed "16 97".
S A
Listing NGR: SP1912825775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 126386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Battlefields Register,
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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