Perle School of Dancing

PERLE SCHOOL OF DANCING, 9, BARRACK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119021
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:
Perle School of Dancing
Statutory Address:
PERLE SCHOOL OF DANCING, 9, BARRACK STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119021
Date first listed:
28-Nov-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Sept-1975
List Entry Name:
Perle School of Dancing
Statutory Address 1:
PERLE SCHOOL OF DANCING, 9, BARRACK STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PERLE SCHOOL OF DANCING, 9, BARRACK STREET

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bridport
National Grid Reference:
SY 46823 92953

Details

1. 5191 BARRACK STREET (West Side )

No 9 (Perle School of Dancing) (formerly Lyric Cinema) SY 4692 1/38 28.11.5O.

II GV

2. Rebuilt 1777. Built as an Independant Chapel, when the Independants split from the Unitarians in 1746 Since the building of the Independant (new United Reformed) Church in 1859, it has been a Temperance Hall, the Liberal Hall, and the Electric Palace Cinema. Hammer dressed stone. Slate roof with 1 hipped gable. Modillion eaves cornice. Round-headed doorway with round-headed window over it. Over lower part of window is a tablet with "Liberal Club 1886" engraved. Round-headed windows at each side.

Nos 3 to 11 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SY4682392953

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Legacy System number:
104466
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.

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