18, HIGH STREET

18, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144591
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
18, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
18, HIGH STREET
18 High Street, Wigton
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1144591
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
18, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18, 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.

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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:
18, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wigton
National Grid Reference:
NY 25511 48318

Details

NY 2548 WIGTON HIGH STREET (West side) Wigton

14/70 No. 18

II

House, now doctor's surgery and flat. Early C19 with earlier range to rear dated and inscribed over entrance J.J.R. 1730. Incised stucco with dentilled cornice and V-jointed quoins on moulded plinth. Graduated slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 4 bays, bay to left over archway, with 3 bays to rear in overall L-shape and adjoining earlier house of 2 storeys, 2 bays now an outbuilding. 6-panel door in reeded pilaster surround with entablature under dentilled cornice. Large canted bay window to right. Segmental archway has alternate block surround and false keystone. Sash windows in painted stone architraves, those on first floor with dentilled cornices. Rear extension has incised cement-rendered walls and Welsh slate roof. Panelled doors in painted stone surrounds and sash windows with glazing bars. Earlier house has top glazed 6-panel door in chamfered surround under inscribed and dated lintel. Sash windows, those on upper floor Yorkshire sashes.

Listing NGR: NY2551148318

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
72024
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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