35, TANGIER STREET
35, TANGIER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247814
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 35, TANGIER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 35, TANGIER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247814
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 35, TANGIER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 35, TANGIER 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 35, TANGIER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitehaven
- National Grid Reference:
- NX9740818430
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
WHITEHAVEN TANGIER STREET
NX 9718 SW
6/184
No 35
II
Shop, built as a motor car salesroom and workshop. Circa 1905. Rendered
(probably sandstone, material not visible); diminishing slate roof with red
crested ridge tiles. 2 storeys. Plan: shop (with offices over) with vehicular
access and workshop to rear partly included in lower rear wing. Front, 4 window
range the right-hand window bay curved towards street corner. Intact shop front
with dentilled fascia, pedimented pilasters each with decorative plaster motif
(fruit suspended from a shell); plate glass windows each with 3 upper lights,
and deeply recessed half-glazed door. 1st floor windows under pediments on con-
sole brackets, horned sashes in reveals with glazing bars to upper sash only.
Plaster festoons between the pediments; right-hand sash curved to accommodate
corner. Moulded gutter box with egg and dart. Rear wing with one 3-light
window under cornice on console brackets. Interior: evidence of rear vehicular
access and workshop. A good early-C20 shop front in an important position on
the east approach to the town. An important survival of the early motor-car
trade, purpose built but using traditional motifs. In 1910 (Kelly's Directory)
it was occupied by H S Jacques, motor-car retailer, one of the few operating in
Cumberland at this date.
Listing NGR: NX9740818430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429197
- 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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