Border Insurance Advisory Service

62-66, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212934
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Border Insurance Advisory Service
Statutory Address:
62-66, KING STREET
Border Insurance Advisory Service, Wigton
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1212934
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Border Insurance Advisory Service
Statutory Address 1:
62-66, KING STREET
Statutory Address 2:
BORDER INSURANCE ADVISORY SERVICE, 1, MARKET HILL

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:
62-66, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
BORDER INSURANCE ADVISORY SERVICE, 1, MARKET HILL

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wigton
National Grid Reference:
NY 25650 48510

Details

NY 2548 WIGTON KING STREET (South side) Wigton

14/77 Nos 62-66 (alternate, including No 1 Market Hill)

G.V. II

4 houses with shops on ground floor. Dated 1793 over side carriage arch. Pebble-dashed walls with string courses, dentilled cornice and angle pilasters on moulded plinth. Hipped Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays each, with 2 bays to left rear forming L-shape (No 1 Market Hill). 9-panel doors under patterned fanlights in open pedimented Tuscan doorcases up 3 steps. Sash windows in stone surrounds. No 1 Market Hill (Border Insurance Advisory Service) has porch with C20 door under patterned fanlight in pilastered surround and console-bracketed cornice. Ground floor shop window, C20 casements above and upper floor sash windows. Segmental carriage arch to left has quoined surround and dated keystone.

Listing NGR: NY2565048510

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
72031
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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