54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132788
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132788
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54 AND 56, 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:
- 54 AND 56, HIGH STREET
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:
- SE 43869 00859
Details
SE40SW WATH UPON DEARNE HIGH STREET (south side)
2/47 Nos 54 and 56
II
House. Mid C18, rewindowed and extended in early C19. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with partial attic. Earlier central block with two 1st-floor windows with lower additions, each with one 1st-floor window,to each end. Central part: quoins; panelled double-door to left of centre in stone architrave with plinth blocks and cornice. Flanking 16-pane sashes in projecting surrounds with sunken panels, paterae and cornices; 1st-floor windows the same. Wing to left set back: panelled door to right in projecting square-cut surround. Semi-elliptical bay window to left with ashlar apron, 20-pane sash flanked by 8-pane sashes, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Sash with glazing bars above has plain surround. Wing to right: panelled door to left, 16-pane sash to each floor; all with plain projecting surrounds. Shaped kneelers and ashlar gable copings throughout. Central brick ridge stack; end stack to right; rendered end stack to left.
Interior: unusual narrow staircases to attic which fold down from wall recesses. Collared principal rafter trusses. Low outbuilding to right not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SE4386900859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335556
- 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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