Curwen and Co. Solicitors

CURWEN AND CO. SOLICITORS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144483
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Curwen and Co. Solicitors
Statutory Address:
CURWEN AND CO. SOLICITORS, PORTLAND SQUARE
Curwen and Co. Solicitors, Workington
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144483
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Curwen and Co. Solicitors
Statutory Address 1:
CURWEN AND CO. SOLICITORS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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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Location

Statutory Address:
CURWEN AND CO. SOLICITORS, PORTLAND SQUARE

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Workington
National Grid Reference:
NY 00633 28589

Details

NY 02 NW WORKINGTON PORTLAND SQUARE (West
side) Workington

10/59 Curwen and Co.
Solicitors

II

House now solicitor's office. Late C18. Painted roughcast walls, under
graduated greenslate roof with roughcast chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic,
4 bays. Panelled door and sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone
surrounds. Blocked left segmental-headed doorway. 2 bays to right have attic.
Rear has bowed staircase window with glazing bars. Right return wall comprises
No.7 Portland Street, but now all one property.


Listing NGR: NY0063328589

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Legacy System number:
72283
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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