1, OLD STREET, 17, TOWER STREET

1, OLD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281948
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:
1, OLD STREET, 17, TOWER STREET
Statutory Address:
1, OLD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281948
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1993
List Entry Name:
1, OLD STREET, 17, TOWER STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1, OLD STREET
Statutory Address 2:
17, TOWER 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, OLD STREET
Statutory Address:
17, TOWER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ludlow
National Grid Reference:
SO 51264 74691

Details

LUDLOW

SO5174 OLD STREET 825-1/1/499 (East side) No.1

GV II

Includes: No.17 TOWER STREET. Restaurant and shops. C15-C17 with C20 alterations. Render with plain tile roof, hipped to No.17. Originally street-corner courtyard plan, subsequently filled in. 2-storeys also with attic to No.17. 5-window range in all of C20 windows and shopfronts, much undercut on corner. Tower Street front similar with undercutting recalling original jetty. 2 gabled dormers. INTERIOR of shop to right has probably C16 spine beam and heavy rafters, otherwise not inspected, but No.17 is reported as retaining a late medieval roof in the front half with curved wind braces and timber-framing of heavy scantling in the rear half. (Lloyd D: Ludlow Historical Research).

Listing NGR: SO5126174692

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
390046
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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