Nos 1 to 23 (odd) and Nos 2 to 28 (even) Victoria Parade
1-23, VICTORIA PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254284
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1 to 23 (odd) and Nos 2 to 28 (even) Victoria Parade
- Statutory Address:
- 1-23, VICTORIA PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254284
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1 to 23 (odd) and Nos 2 to 28 (even) Victoria Parade
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-23, VICTORIA PARADE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2-28, VICTORIA PARADE
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:
- 1-23, VICTORIA PARADE
- Statutory Address:
- 2-28, VICTORIA PARADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83367 21855
Details
SD 82 SW
255-/6/10003
RAWTENSTALL,
WATERFOOT,
VICTORIA PARADE
Nos 1 to 23 (odd)
Nos 2 to 28 (even)
II
A parade of shops with accommodation above, and attached glazed
canopy. Late C19 with C20 alterations and additions.Coursed
squared sandstone with ashlar dressings Welsh slated roof
with crested clay ridges, wide stone stacks with moulded
caps and C20 clay pots. Triangular plan,with two diverging arms
joined at south end and connected by a glazed roof covering
internal courtyard between diverging arms to north.East
elevation of 16 bays. South-west elevation of 12 bays and
probably truncated. Each pair of bays corresponds to one shop
front with door and one dwelling door. East elevation of three
storeys with 8 bays of glazed canopy supported by tapering
cast iron columns with decorative lateral brackets. Shop
fronts, some C20 renewals, with splayed doorways to left and
set back half-glazed doors with raised and fielded lower
panels. Pilasters define shop bays between shop fronts. Coupled
doorways to dwellings above. First floor with wide sash window
to each shop bay and narrow sash above each dwelling door, both
without glazing bars and within ashlar surrounds, heads and
cills being linked by flush bands. Pattern of openings repeated
on second floor. The third bay from the north is an open access
passage to the internal courtyard, with railed double
gates. South west elevation repeats this pattern,but with shop
doors to the right of the shop windows. Faceted end bay where
the two ranges converge, originally 2 large back-to-back
shops, now altered, but with wide shop windows, one(no.2) with
sash-hung window and wide 4-panel door with rectangular
overlight. Inner courtyard retains unrestored shop fronts and
round ended projecting unit with curved glazing barred first
floor window below deep cornice. Added ashlar decorative panel
at south end of complex carries projecting clock with
commemorative metal plaque below.
Listing NGR: SD8336721855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437725
- 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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