Merchant House and Attached Building to Rear
MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185747
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1947
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House and Attached Building to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185747
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1947
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant House and Attached Building to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
- Statutory Address 2:
- MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
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:
- MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANT HOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDING TO REAR, 6, BULL RING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35805 90790
Details
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH
SP39SE 2/38
Chilvers Coton
BULL RING (South side)
Merchant House and attached building to rear
(Formerly listed as No.6)
06/12/47
II
House and attached building. Early/mid C19. Flemish bond brick with string course and dentil cornice. Old plain-tile roof; rebuilt right end stack. T-plan, with wing and attached building to rear. Two storeys; three-window range.
Symmetrical front has flush six -panelled door, formerly part-glazed, with stone flat arch and keystone. Two-light iron casements have patterned glazing and brick flat arches. Rear range has two altered windows on ground floor on the right, with C20 casement above. Remainder of building has three round-arched iron windows and blocked door on first floor; ground floor obscured by additions.
The house and attached workshop were part of Chilvers Coton Foundry (Brass and Iron) in late C19, and also the Midland Sheet Metal Works in C20. Restored as housing in 2005.
Interiors not inspected.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 June 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308576
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Pickford, C, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire , (2016), 492
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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