No 54 With Properties to the Rear (Formerly Rudd's Court)
NO 54 WITH PROPERTIES TO THE REAR (FORMERLY RUDD'S COURT), 54, ROPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263925
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- No 54 With Properties to the Rear (Formerly Rudd's Court)
- Statutory Address:
- NO 54 WITH PROPERTIES TO THE REAR (FORMERLY RUDD'S COURT), 54, ROPER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263925
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- No 54 With Properties to the Rear (Formerly Rudd's Court)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 54 WITH PROPERTIES TO THE REAR (FORMERLY RUDD'S COURT), 54, ROPER 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:
- NO 54 WITH PROPERTIES TO THE REAR (FORMERLY RUDD'S COURT), 54, ROPER 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:
- NX 97264 18034
Details
ROPER STREET NX 9718 SW
6/187 No 54 with properties to the rear (formerly Rudd's Court) GV II House with shop (derelict at time of inspection, September 1989). Late C17, largely rebuilt in the late C18. Rendered sandstone; slate roof. Originally single-cell plan with rear stack and adjacent newel stair. 3 storeys. Front: tripartite sash window to 1st and 2nd floors, 8:12:8 sashes in reveals. Shop front largely obscured; recessed entrance to right. To the rear of this build- ing is Rudd's Court (not accessible at time of inspection); the RCHM describes them as one and 2-celled cottages of mid to late C18 construction and they form an important survival of artisans' accommodation ranged behind the principal street shops and houses. (Reference: RCHM archive this building is discussed in the RCHM's inventory on Whitehaven, forthcoming 1990.)
Listing NGR: NX9726418034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429163
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whitehaven 1660-1800, (1991)
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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