Phoenix House
18 AND 20, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184898
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Phoenix House
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 20, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184898
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Phoenix House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 20, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PHOENIX HOUSE, 16, CHURCH 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:
- 18 AND 20, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PHOENIX HOUSE, 16, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Atherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 30801 97918
Details
ATHERSTONE CHURCH STREET SP3097 (North-west side) 9/26 Nos. 16 (Phoenix House), 18 and 20 GV II Shops and entrance to yard; part of row. No.16 on left is late C18, possibly with earlier origins. Nos. 18 and 20 are early C19, with C18 and C19 ranges to rear. Flemish bond brick. Old plain-tile roofs; Nos. 18 and 20 have brick ridge and end stacks. No.16 is a double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Late C19 entrance and shop front have chamfered wood pilasters and entablature. C20 half-glazed door on left. Shop has recessed half-glazed double-leaf doors. First floor has 4-pane sashes. Thin pedimented gable has blocked window. Rusticated rendered flat arches have moulded keyblocks. Nos. 18 and 20 are U-plan with wings to rear. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Central entrance to Phoenix Yard has beam. No.18 on left has late C19/early C20 plate glass shop window with cornice and brackets. Nos.16 and 18 now form one shop. No.20 has 2 early/mid Cl9 shop fronts of slightly differing designs, each with a half-glazed 4-panelled door and a canted bay; left door has reeded wood pilasters. Upper floors have 4-pane sashes; rusticated rendered flat arches have moulded keyblocks. Inside the passage No.20 has C19 four-panelled door and overlight in reeded wood surround with corner roundels. 3-stormy one-bay rear range has 16-pane sash to rear, with cross window to first floor and 4-pane sash above, 2-storey, 2-bay range has plank door and 2- and 3-light casements. No.18 has irregular 2-storey, 2-bay range.
Listing NGR: SP3080197918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309114
- 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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