Numbers 39 and 40 and Adjoining Walls

NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ADJOINING WALLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156908
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:
Numbers 39 and 40 and Adjoining Walls
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ADJOINING WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156908
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Numbers 39 and 40 and Adjoining Walls
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ADJOINING WALLS

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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:
NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND ADJOINING WALLS

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Sherborne
National Grid Reference:
SP 17365 14483

Details

SHERBORNE SHERBORNE VILLAGE SP 1714 9/212 Nos 39 and 40 and adjoining walls 2.8.83 GV II

Pair of semi-detached estate cottages. Early C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate roof. Three C20 dressed stone stacks. Long rectangular plan to main body. Symmetrical 1½ storey facade. Four half dormers to first floor with 2-light stone-mullioned casements. Four 2-light casements with stopped hoods to ground floor. C20 flush panel door to No 39 (left), C20 part-glazed door to No 40. Gable-end and axial stack all set on plinths. Flat coping at gable ends and to dormers. Moulded kneelers. Interiors not inspected. Coursed squared and dressed limestone walls, c2m in height at right angles to gable ends linking No 37 to No 39 and No 40 to No 41. (No 40, property of National Trust).

Listing NGR: SP1736514483

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
130649
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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