72, High Street

72, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144677
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
List Entry Name:: 72, High Street
Statutory Address:: 72, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144677
Date first listed:: 27-May-1977
List Entry Name:: 72, High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 72, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BG

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 72, High Street, Maryport, CA15 6BG

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maryport
National Grid Reference:: NY 03498 36560

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 20 July 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards

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MARYPORT HIGH STREET (west side) No 72

II Maryport is a mid-C18 Cumbrian town and port, succeeding a small settlement and harbour known as Ellenfoot (Alnfoot), established on a planned grid pattern by Humphrey Senhouse (1731-1814) to serve the local coal mining and iron industry and function as a minor shipping point. The town officially became known as Maryport in 1756 after Humphrey Senhouse’s wife, although it had unofficially been referred to as such since the 1750s. During the C19 the town and port expanded to serve the local iron and steel industries as the town’s shipbuilding industry developed, and by the mid-C19 coal exporting had declined and the railway was introduced. The port and town remained important on the West Cumberland Coast but declined with the cessation of major industrial activity from the late 1920s. Maryport has been known as a destination for sea-bathing since the late C18.

The High Street runs north to south along an elevated ridge, which forms the historic core of the town, and may have much earlier origins than the mid-C18 planned town, even potentially utilised as part of a Roman road from the fort to the River Ellen. The grid street pattern was laid out by the mid-C18 at the dipped junction with Shipping Brow and Senhouse Street, and historically it was a mixed area of higher status residences and small commercial businesses. By the early C19 it formed the main north-south orientated throughfare, with Crosby Street, through the town. This building was one of a series of buildings along this street that served as shops and residences. 72 High Street served as an upholsterer’s shop for much of the late C19.

Early-C19 three-storey rendered building with a ground-floor shopfront with a half-glazed door and narrow pilasters supporting a fascia and cornice. The upper floors each have two sash windows with glazing bars, which are probably later.

Listing NGR: NY0349836560

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Legacy System number:: 71831
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.