No 46 (Market Place Block)
NO 46 (MARKET PLACE BLOCK), 46, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184973
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- No 46 (Market Place Block)
- Statutory Address:
- NO 46 (MARKET PLACE BLOCK), 46, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00267/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184973
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- No 46 (Market Place Block)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 46 (MARKET PLACE BLOCK), 46, 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:
- NO 46 (MARKET PLACE BLOCK), 46, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Highworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 20213 92476
Details
1. 5410 HIGHWORTH HIGH STREET (north side) No 46 (Market Place block) SU 2092 SW 18/306 26.1.55
II GV
2. Early C19 front to Market Place projecting from mid C17 building. Formerly Holy Lamb public house. Front 2 storeys rubble with brick quoins and quoined brick dressings. Low pitched stone tile roof, hipped. Six glazing bar sash windows on first floor, one on ground floor. Shop front centre right. Six panel door to left of centre, the door and adjacent window with stone lintels The older part is behind and quite visible. Two and a half storeys with 2 gabled dormers and stone tile roof. Large chimney stack to left with 2 diagonal brick shafts on weathered and stepped stone base. A further brick chimney, off ridge, to right hand gable. On right hand gable the front is joined to an older 2 storey extension. Also on this gable a panel with faded and illegible date (looks surprisingly like A.D.1566) and an unusual device possibly a woolmark. Two storey extension to north-east.
Listing NGR: SU2021592477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318433
- 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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