17, ATHERTON STREET
17, ATHERTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288245
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 17, ATHERTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, ATHERTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288245
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 17, ATHERTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, ATHERTON 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:
- 17, ATHERTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Knowsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Prescot
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4671992865
Details
The following building shall be added:
PRESCOT ATHERTON STREET
SJ 49 SE
6/49 No 17
II
House forming part of a terrace. Circa 1790. Brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate
roof. 3 storeys, regular 2-window range. Moulded eaves cornice. Sash windows to
upper floors, all hornless, those to 1st floor under segmental arches. Late
C19 style shop front with doorway to right. Ridge stack to left. The importance of
the building lies in the survival of an integral 2nd floor watch-maker's workshop
visible to the rear. 30-pane window, lintel at eaves level, 4 principal mullions
one with a shaped eaves bracket. 1st floor sash windows under segmental heads. This
building marks an early phase in the history of watch making in Prescot, an industry
for which the town was nationally important.
Listing NGR: SJ4671992865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 215306
- 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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