343 AND 345, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153072
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: 343 AND 345, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 343 AND 345, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153072
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: 343 AND 345, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 343 AND 345, HIGH 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:: 343 AND 345, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanage
National Grid Reference:: SZ 01725 78966

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5190 (south side) Nos 343 and 345 SZ 0178 3/111 26.6.52 [formerly listed as No 343 (Herston Post Office)] II GV

2. Now in same ownership as No 2 Bell Street - qv. Used as a shop. Probably C18. Purbeck Stone walls and roof. Brick stacks. Two storeys and attics. Modern single-storey shop extension filling a former recessed forecourt. Original building L-shaped on plan. The western section adjoins the street, balancing the gable end of No 2 Bell Street. Ground floor has one double-hung sash window with glazing bars. One blocked doorway. First floor has 3 double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. Attic has 3 half-dormers with gabled roofs and double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. Part of an important group at the junction with Bell Street. RCHM Monument 62.

Listing NGR: SZ0172578966

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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.