53, UNION STREET
53, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273891
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273891
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 53, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, UNION 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:
- 53, UNION STREET
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 59198 92688
Details
UNION STREET 1. 1577 (West Side) No 53 SZ 5992 2/356
II GV
2. Circa 1850. Corner site with Yelf's Road. Three storeys faced with stone coursed in imitation of brick. Rendered ground floor with heavy banded rustication, on plinth. Rendered rusticated quoins to sides and flanking inset curved corner. Rendered parapet with coping and panels of balusters separated by piers. Heavy cornice and frieze. Ground floor cornice. Superimposed flat fronted bow windows on first and second floors, to Union Street, of three lights each, sash, no glazing bars, panelled aprons, dentil cornice to second floor one. Second floor windows on corner and to Yelf's Road, recessed, sash, later glazing bars, in rendered architrave surrounds. First floor windows are similar, though taller, and have addition of segmental pediments. First floor corner window has small bowed cast iron balcony on stone brackets. Original round headed doorway and window of shop to Union Street. Keystone over door, block sill to window, plate glass. Ground floor windows to Yelf's Road large and segment headed with keystones, moulded sills. Two storey wing continues front along Yelf's Road, similar treatment of facade but with narrow round headed windows on first floor with Keystones, linked at the springing of the arches by a string course. The main cornice has a dentil band. Brick extension of two bays with rendered dressings to West.
Nos 44 to 53 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ5918892686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416794
- 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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