39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196507
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196507
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39 AND 40, 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:
- 39 AND 40, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO2969556626
Details
KINGTON
SO2956
643-1/1/117
26/07/76
HIGH STREET
(South East side)
Nos.39 AND 40
GV
II
Houses, now shops and dwellings. Late C18. Brick; ashlar;
Welsh slate roof with tile-coped gable parapets; brick ridge
stack and end stack. 3 storeys; 4-window range: to left, two
C18 6/6 sashes; to right, two C19 plain sashes; gauged brick
flat arches; 3/6 sashes, over; moulded wood eaves. C20
shopfront to No.39; early C20 shopfront to No.40, with central
half-glazed panelled door and plain overlight, flanked by
plate-glass windows with curved returns and moulded
glazing-bars, under moulded fascia-board and hood, on panelled
pilasters. Left returned side: rubble; ashlar to front; wing
to rear with C20 door in altered opening under stone flat
arch; casement over in altered opening under brick flat arch.
Rear: brick; rendered gable to wing of No.40; wing with
steep-pitched Welsh slate roof and brick stack, to No.39.
Listing NGR: SO2969556626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385883
- 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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