37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178161
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178161
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 AND 39, 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:
- 37 AND 39, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54116 41646
Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (north-east SJ 5441 side) 8/92 - Nos. 37 and 39 GV II
Two houses, now 2 shops and flat. Mid-C17 with late C17 addition, remodelled in the early C19. Rendered timber frame, front wall rebuilt in red brick. Slate roof. L-plan. 3 framed bays and one-bay wing at rear with lower 2-bay addition. 3 storeys with partly 2-storey rear wing. Dentil brick eaves cornice (with paired- headers). Brick stack to right and integral brick end stack to 3-storey part of rear wing. 3 irregularly- spaced bays; glazing bar sashes, 16-pane and 4-pane (glazing bars removed) to first floor and 12-pane to second floor, all with painted stone cills and lintels. Pair of early to mid-C19 wooden shop-fronts with later plate glass windows, that to left with windows flanking central pair of half- glazed doors, and that to right with window and recessed glazed door to left; both with surrounds consisting of quarter pilasters with acanthus capitals, and fascia and cornice, that to left with brackets. Boarded door to side passage at right with 2-part rectangular overlight. Former illuminated sign and sign advertising "LYONS CAKES" suspended from bracket, both above left-hand shop doorway. Rear: 2-storey range, partly rebuilt in brick, with dentil brick eaves cornice, boarded gabled dormer and central brick ridge stack. Interior: ground-floor front rooms with pairs of chamfered spine beams. Attic over front range has collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts. Lower rear wing with chamfered beams and collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-struts.
Listing NGR: SJ5411641646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260648
- 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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