67-72 FAR GOSFORD STREET

67-72, FAR GOSFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226785
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: 67-72 FAR GOSFORD STREET
Statutory Address:: 67-72, FAR GOSFORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226785
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: 67-72 FAR GOSFORD STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 67-72, FAR GOSFORD STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 67-72, FAR GOSFORD STREET

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

District:: Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 34502 79019

Details

5105

SP 3479 SE & SP 37 NW

9/226 & 17/226

FAR GOSFORD STREET (north side)

Nos 67-72 (consecutive)

II

Terrace row with 'topshops' to upper storey, now used as shops. Nos 67-70 are early C19, and Nos 71-72 are circa 1840. Flemish bond brick; gabled plain tile roofs with concrete tiles to Nos 67 and 72; brick ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. Three storeys; six-window range.

Late C19 shop front with bracketed architrave and plate-glass windows to No 67; other shop fronts replaced in C20. Semi-circular arched pedestrian through entry between Nos 68 and 69. Gauged brick flat arches over first-floor windows, with early C19 sixteen-pane sashes to Nos 67 and 68, late C19 four-pane sash to No 71 and C20 windows to others; flat header brick arches over second-floor 'topshop' windows, which retain C19 seven-light casements with horizontal glazing bars to Nos 67 and 68. Moulded wood cornice.

Rear elevation has mid/late C19 extensions with slate roofs, segmental-arched two-light C19 casements and C19 seven-light casements with glazing bars to 'topshops'.

Interiors: retain original 'topshops' (purpose-built well-lit workshops), reached by winder stairs from first floor; probably used for weaving and ribbon-making.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 October 2019.

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

Legacy System number:: 424266
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.