21 High Street
21, High Street, DN1 1DW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286659
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 21, High Street, DN1 1DW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286659
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 21 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, High Street, DN1 1DW
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:
- 21, High Street, DN1 1DW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57561 03286
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 January 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 5703 SE
7/46
TOWN OF DONCASTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
No 21
(Formerly listed as No 21 (Waring and Gillow))
GV
II
Public meeting rooms, now shop. 1841, with C20 alterations. Rendered stone with painted stone dressings, roof hidden behind parapet. Three storeys and three bays. C20 shop front to full width of ground floor. Three semi-circular headed first floor windows in pilastered surrounds with moulded archivolts, panelled keystones and large dentilled open pediments on consoles and dosserets. Mixed fenestration of leaded lights and C20 casements. Moulded sill stringcourse. Similar string-course to second floor interrupted by moulded brackets supporting sills to three six-pane sashes in eared architraves with paterae to the top corners. Stepped frieze and bracketed cornice above. Plain parapets with moulded copings. Reduced side wall stacks.
Built as a rival concern to the Subscription Rooms (1826) (qv) opposite.
Source: 'The Changing Face of Doncaster', by Colin Walton.
Listing NGR: SE5756103286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watson, C, The Changing Face of Doncaster, ()
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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