1, VERNON SQUARE
1, VERNON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273786
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, VERNON SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, VERNON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273786
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1, VERNON SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, VERNON SQUARE
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, VERNON SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 59454 92530
Details
VERNON SQUARE 1. 1577 (East Side) No 1 SZ 5992 2/152
II
2. Circa 1850. Double fronted semi-detached house including No 1 Belvedere Street. Tall building for Ryde. Four storeys and semi-basement, coursed rendering with wrap round pilasters rising from plinth to support heavy second floor block cornice. Low pitch hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Entrance fronts to Vernon Square and Belvedere Street: three windows, recessed, sash most of glazing bars intact. Large, broad, enclosed porch with wrap round pilaster frieze, cornice and blocking course. Modern recessed doors but with narrow rectangular fanlights set in architrave sur- rounds. The porch of No 1 Vernon Square has two extra pilasters flanking front and the first floor above has been boxed in and glazed. No 1 Belvedere Street has a flight of twelve steps with landing due to sloping site. The North front facing Melville Street is also of three windows, the centre ones blind. But the ground and first floors have superimposed rendered rectangular bays of one window to each side, glazing bars intact, flanked on both floors, as with porches, by wrap round pilasters to front and to wall, with frieze and cornice to both floors. Parapet over with terrace for second floor windows.
Listing NGR: SZ5945692530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417075
- 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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