26, HIGH STREET
26, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177912
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 26, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177912
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 26, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 26, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Measham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3334612100
Details
SK 31 SW
4/39
MEASHAM
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
No. 26
GV
II
Canal warehouse, now shop of c1800. Red brick - Measham gobs - with
brick dentilled eaves and gable band and roof of C20 tiles. Front of
2 storeys: rear of 3. Painted front has 3 recessed half round openings
with C20 windows above, long central fascia, and below a recessed central
door in a former now altered giant arch with C20 windows either side. Left
end abuts line of former canal which went under street at this point. Here
a recessed giant arch with original 3 blank recessed windows, ground and
1st floor cambered lintels, 2nd floor round arched. Rear has recessed central
arch and 3 2nd floor renewed windows with cambered lintels and C 20 brick
flat-roofed extension. Ground floor right a large blocked arch originally
serving as direct access to wharf. House to right forming part of No. 26 of
lesser interest. This warehouse and Nos. 39-43 exactly opposite were
originally designed as mirror images and constitute a noteworthy group.
Listing NGR: SK3334612100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187929
- 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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