25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108744
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108744
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
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:
- 25, 27 AND 27A, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaftesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86319 22964
Details
1. 1615 HIGH STREET (South Side) No 25 Nos 27 & 27A ST 8622 2/176 II GV 2. Mid C19. 2 storeys and attic. 6 bays with windows in different planes. Slate gabled roof; 6 segmental roofed dormers. Toothed stone cornices at eaves and to 1st floor. Red brick front. Stone quoins articulating each bay; stone dressings to windows and doorways. Segmental-headed windows; keystones; no glazing bars. 2 round-headed stone doorways, left hand one [No 27A] now converted into shop window. 2 large C19 shop fronts with small canopied hoods on shaped brackets; plain fascias [altered in No 27], each window flanked by panelled pilasters.
The Town Hall, Church of St Peter, The Mitre Inn and Nos 25 to 31 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: ST8632622968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102049
- 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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