45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279232
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279232
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 45 AND 46, BROAD 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:
- 45 AND 46, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyme Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 34068 92142
Details
BROAD STREET 1. 1357 (North East Side) Nos 45 and 46 [Formerly listed as premises occupied by Boots (Cash Chemists Ltd) SY 4392 1/53 23.4.52. II GV 2. Early to mid C19 front to the former Great House; part of the original structure said to remain to the rear wing. 3 storeys. 3 window bays. Slate roof. Stuccoed front. Moulded cornice and parapet. Sash windows with glazing bars on 2nd floors. French casements with margin lights opening to iron balcony. On ground floor modern shop front to left hand. At right hand end, house door up steps, ledged reveals; 4-panelled door; rectangular fanlight. Plaque on the building gives the following information; 'This house occupies part of the site of what was originally known as The Great House of Lyme Regis. Here lodged in the summer of 1773 William Pitt [1708-1778], first Earl of Chatham, the great War Minister of George II, and his son William Pitt [1759-1806] the great Prime Minister of George III. Also for some months in l796-1797 it was the home of Mary Russell Mitford [1787-1855], essayist and dramatist."
Nos 45 to 65 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SY3407192149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403870
- 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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