The Factory Shop

THE FACTORY SHOP, 15, VICARAGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132723
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
The Factory Shop
Statutory Address:
THE FACTORY SHOP, 15, VICARAGE LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132723
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
The Factory Shop
Statutory Address 1:
THE FACTORY SHOP, 15, VICARAGE LANE

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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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:
THE FACTORY SHOP, 15, VICARAGE LANE

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

District:
Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 42877 92852

Details

SK4292 ROTHERHAM VICARAGE LANE (south side) 9/74 No 15 (The Factory Shop) GV II House now shop. Early-mid C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys; 3 x 3 bays; occupies corner site. Main front: pedimented central bay breaks forward. C20 shop windows to full width of ground floor, corner entrance to left. Chamfered ashlar quoins to upper storeys, projection also quoined. 1st floor: sill band with moulded soffit. Sashes with glazing bars in architraves with moulded sills on shaped brackets. 2nd floor: shorter unequally-hung 9-pane sashes with less ornate bracketed sills. Shaped brackets on table beneath boxed oversailing eaves. Left end of roof hipped. Left return: C20 shop front to ground floor. Upper floors as front but without pedimented break. Built on site of old vicarage immediately adjacent to Church of All Saints (q.v.). Shown as Mechanics' Institute on 1851 O.S. map. Later formed the 'Caxton Works' premises of the Rotherham Advertiser first published on January 2nd 1858. Included for group value. Rotherham Annual, 1908 (illustrated without shop front).

Listing NGR: SK4288492852

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Legacy System number:
335710
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Rotherham Annual in Rotherham Annual, (1908)
Rotherham Advertiser in 2 January, (1858)

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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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