E Smith General Stores

E SMITH GENERAL STORES, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215939
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
E Smith General Stores
Statutory Address:
E SMITH GENERAL STORES, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1215939
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1988
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
E Smith General Stores
Statutory Address 1:
E SMITH GENERAL STORES, CHURCH 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
E SMITH GENERAL STORES, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Stilton
National Grid Reference:
TL 16220 89333

Details

In the entry for- STILTON CHURCH STREET (South side)

10/50 E Smith General Stores

The address and the description shall be amended to read

TL 1689 STILTON CHURCH STREET (North side) 10/50 E Smith General Stores Fourth sentence of the description shall be amended to read

"Pantiled roof........."

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STILTON CHURCH STREET TL 1689 (South Side) 10/50 E Smith General Stores

II

House and shop. Early C18 with early and later C19 alterations. Yellow and red local brick. Plain tiled roof with parapet gables and end stacks. Original two storeys raised to three storeys and attic with rear outshut, shop alteration mid to late C19. Central house doorway with four-panelled door and rectangular fanlight with margin glazing bars. To right hand double, glazed shop doors recessed and central to flat roofed segmental plan shop windows with original glazing bars, plain frieze and cornice with E SMITH in standing letters above. Interior: early C19 plastered ceiling with roundels and quarters to corners, C18 cornice, C19 staircase in outshut, C18 raised and fielded panelled doors and C19 four-panelled doors. The house is said to have been occupied by a French general who employed French plasterers.

Listing NGR: TL1622089333

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
401229
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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