59 and 61, Moorgate Street

59 and 61, Moorgate Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286517
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
59 and 61, Moorgate Street
Statutory Address:
59 and 61, Moorgate Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286517
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
59 and 61, Moorgate Street
Statutory Address 1:
59 and 61, Moorgate 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
59 and 61, Moorgate Street

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

District:
Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK4293692557

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 April 2026 to correct a typo in the name and address and reformat text to current standards

SK4292
9/60

ROTHERHAM
MOORGATE STREET (south-west side)
Nos 59 and 61

II

Pair of houses now two shops and one dwelling. Mid C18. Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone now painted; Welsh slate roof. Two storeys with half basement and attic. Three openings to first floor. Large projecting quoins. Pair of doorways to centre have broad, projecting, square-faced surrounds with part-glazed doors. Old shop window to each side each with wooden pilasters, plain frieze and cornice; similar frieze and cornice shared by doors. First floor: two-pane sashes in projecting square-faced surrounds flank matching blind opening above doors. Shaped kneelers, square-cut gable copings. Brick end stacks. Rear: original square-faced surrounds to door and window openings. Paired stair windows. Two wooden dormers. Old photograph shows right shop existed c1915, left house converted later (Neville and Benson (plate 17)).

R. G. Neville and J. Benson, Rotherham As It Was, 1976.

Listing NGR: SK4293692557

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Legacy System number:
335695
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Neville, , Benson, , Rotherham as it Was, (1976), pl 17

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 59 and 61, Moorgate Street

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