56, HIGH STREET
56, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178300
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178300
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 56, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, 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:
- 56, 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 54094 41645
Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (south-west SJ 5441 side) 8/104 No. 56 - GV II
House, now shop and surgery. Early to mid-C18. Red brick, painted to front, with some sandstone dressings. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Chamfered stone quoins and parapeted gable ends with rounded copings and moulded stone kneelers. 3 bays; tall plate-glass first-floor sashes with painted moulded stone cills and painted gauged-brick heads with raised keystones. Central window blocked. Late C20 shopfront with plate- glass window to left and half-glazed door to right. Sun fire insurance plate (No. 414194) between central blocked first-floor window and right- hand window. Interior: post-1720 eighteenth century dog-leg staircase (now only from first floor to attic) with open string, column-on-vase balusters (2 per tread), moulded handrail and square newel posts. C18 first-floor door between front and rear ranges with 2 raised and fielded panels.
Listing NGR: SJ5409441645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260660
- 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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