GROSVENOR HOUSE

GROSVENOR HOUSE, BLEKE STREET, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210163
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: GROSVENOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GROSVENOR HOUSE, BLEKE STREET, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210163
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: GROSVENOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GROSVENOR HOUSE, BLEKE STREET, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AW

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GROSVENOR HOUSE, BLEKE STREET, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AW

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shaftesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 86244 23160

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/04/2015

ST 8623 1/148

BLEKE STREET (South-East Side) Grosvenor House

(Formerly listed as High School for Girls)

II C18 with C19 additions. 3 storeys. 3 windows. Slate hipped roof. Stone rubble front. Windows 3 panes wide in reveals; stone dressings. In centre bay on 1st floor, round headed window with Gothic glazing. Doorway with panelled pilasters and small moulded cornice on brackets over; 6-panelled door in fielded panelled reveals; blocked semi-circular fanlight over. C18 wing behind facing on to Parsons Pool. [See RCHM for further information].

Listing NGR: ST8624423160

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Legacy System number:: 101992
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.