17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1145086
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET
Statutory Address:: 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1145086
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:: 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET

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:: 17 AND 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Penrith
National Grid Reference:: NY 51541 30203

Details

1. 5165 DEVONSHIRE STREET (north end)

Nos 17 and 18 NY 5130 1/75

II* GV

2. C18 and later. Painted ashlar with rusticated quoins and top cornice. Three storeys. A plaque states that the grandparents of William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived here. The facade, at least, has been rebuilt. Present draper's shop established here 1742. Now has elaborate Victorian shop fronts on west and south, with narrow colonnets, glazed scrolled friezes, some round arched moulded windows with triple keystones, and panels of raised lettering, "drapers, silk mercers, hosiers, glovers etc." Two upper storeys have sash windows (5 on west, 3 on south, and 2 on east facade, on each floor). Interior has iron columns, and iron balusters to staircase, shop fittings of mahogany with dentilled cornices.

Listing NGR: NY5153830210

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Legacy System number:: 72824
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.