Broad Gate, Including Broadgate Chambers and Attached Railings
BROAD GATE, INCLUDING BROADGATE CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1282001
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Gate, Including Broadgate Chambers and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BROAD GATE, INCLUDING BROADGATE CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/02245/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1282001
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Gate, Including Broadgate Chambers and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROAD GATE, INCLUDING BROADGATE CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 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:
- BROAD GATE, INCLUDING BROADGATE CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, BROAD 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 51204 74380
Details
LUDLOW
SO5174 BROAD STREET 825-1/1/158 (South side) 15/04/54 Broad Gate, including Broadgate Chambers and attached railings
GV I
C13 gate-house to Town Wall; C16-C18 domestic additions; now dwellings. Rubble; roughcast; plain tile roof; brick end stacks; brick stack with decorative spurs. 2-storeys over entrance passage and associated basements; 5-window range: C20, 6/6 sashes with C18 sashes with broad glazing bars and small old glass to centre. Machicolated parapet and gable with lead panel. Entrance, in left return, has steps and handrail to C18, 6 fielded panel door in moulded case with moulded and enriched hood on clustered-shaft pilasters. Recessed wing to left has two tiers of 6/6 sashes with stucco keyblocks. C19 iron railings between entrance and drop to roadway, rising from stone coping of rubble wing wall. Entrance passage displays ceiling joists and retains portcullis arch and blocked arrow slits at base of drum towers. Plank door and two fixed lights to right of entrance arch. Right return of brick and rubble, with three 6/6 sashes and, in gable, one 6/9 sash in moulded case. Lower Broad Street facade displays stuccoed bay over passage, with 2-light casements with glazing bars, and one 6/6 sash in moulded case over; coped gable. Flanked by stuccoed drum towers; to right with sandstone quoins of (blocked) arrowslits, the upper flanked by C18, 2-light windows with casements; band over; parapet in front of gable with brick stack having decorative spur; to left, stucco with parapet and brick stacks over, obscured by pair of 6/6 sashes in altered openings under timber lintel; 6/6 sash over plank door with fixed light over, under timber lintel. Early C19, 2-storey wing to left, of rubble with C20 plain tile roof. 2-window range of 8/8 sashes; entrance to left has C20, 6-panel door in ornamented entablature on moulded pilasters; 8/12 sashes under stone gable, with massive rubble stack, with brick superstructure. (Lloyd D: Broad Street - its houses and residents through eight centuries: 1979-; Clifton-Taylor A: Six English Towns: 1970-: PP.154-155).
Listing NGR: SO5120074381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clifton Taylor, A, Six English Towns, (1970), 154-155
Lloyd, D, Broad Street - its houses and residents through eight centuries, (1979)
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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