Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange

Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange, Vicar Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100055
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1980
List Entry Name:: Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange
Statutory Address:: Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange, Vicar Street

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Date:: 2000-10-08
Reference:: IOE01/03101/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100055
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Apr-1980
List Entry Name:: Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange
Statutory Address 1:: Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange, Vicar 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:: Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange, Vicar Street

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Kidderminster
National Grid Reference:: SO8317076556

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SO 8376 1/89

VICAR STREET (west side) Public Rooms including the Corn Exchange

(Formerly listed as The Corn Exchange)

GV II

1853, by Bidlake and Lovall. District Council premises; formerly corn exchange, music hall and public rooms. Two storeys in brick with stone dressings. Paired giant pilasters at ends and triple ones flank centre. Ground floor in channelled rustication. The first floor has three windows with cornices on consoles, the centre one having a segmental pediment, stone balconies. Centre pediment with town arms, and parapet with inset iron grilles. Dentil cornice on brackets. Round-headed doorway and double door. A bell tower to the left and a one-storey section to the corner.

Listing NGR: SO8317076556

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Legacy System number:: 156461
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.