OLD STAMP HOUSE

OLD STAMP HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245110
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: OLD STAMP HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD STAMP HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245110
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1975
List Entry Name:: OLD STAMP HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD STAMP HOUSE, CHURCH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:: OLD STAMP HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lakes
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: NY3766604372

Details

NY 3704, 1/21

AMBLESIDE, CHURCH STREET, Old Stamp House

(Formerly Listed as: Premises occupied by Rotha's Cafe)

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Corner of Church Street and Lake Road. Mid C19. Stuccoed, slate roof, 2 storeys. Canted corner has pilastered doorway of 2 round-arched glazed doors. At each side are C19 shop windows with pilasters and small lights divided by slender colonnets. A continuous cornice over whole ground floor, and another above the fascia. Similar windows on the upper floor on the canted corner and the Church Street front (Lake Road front is blank, with a moulded square panel), the Church Street windows having round-headed lights, and in the centre above is a small gable with a shield. Nos 2 to 11 (consec), Royal Oak Hotel, Premises occupied formerly by T and J Glen and Old Stamp House form a group with No. 22 (formerly listed as Premises occupied by Tyson) Lake Road.

Listing NGR: NY3766704370

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Premises occupied by Rotha's Cafe shall be amended to read - Old Stamp House.

The group value note should be amended to read - Nos 2 to 11 (consec), Royal Oak Hotel, Premises occupied by T and J Glen and Old Stamp House form a group with Premises occupied by Tyson, Lake Road.

The group value note appearing against entries for Nos 2 to 11 (consec), Royal Oak Hotel, Premises occupied by T and J Glen, Church Street, Ambleside and Premises occupied by Tyson Lake Road, Ambleside, should be amended to read - Nos 2 to 11 (consec), Royal Oak Hotel, Premises and J Glen and Old Stamp House form a group with Premises occupied by Tyson, Lake Road.

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Legacy System number:: 450591
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.