39, FRONT STREET

39, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185988
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
39, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address:
39, FRONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185988
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
39, FRONT STREET
Statutory Address 1:
39, FRONT 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
39, FRONT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lanchester
National Grid Reference:
NZ 16479 47611

Details

LANCHESTER FRONT STREET NZ 1647 (North side) Lanchester

13/88 No. 39 4/8/75 GV II

House and shop, formerly post office, now one house. Early C19. Painted roughcast render with ashlar dressings and quoins; stone-flagged roof with yellow brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Elliptical vehicle arch at left has pecked and margined alternate-block jambs and voussoirs; boarded doors have trellis upper parts. Painted tooled surrounds, the left slightly chamfered, to central flushed house door and wider former shop door at right. Similar surrounds and projecting stone sills to all windows: the former shop window at right with 4 rows of 5 panes; 16-pane sashes on both floors to left of house door, on first floor over arch and over former shop. Chimneys at left of second bay and at right end. Long stone step to both doors.

Listing NGR: NZ1647947611

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
350595
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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