26-50, CHAPEL STREET
26-50, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26-50, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26-50, CHAPEL STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290648
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 26-50, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26-50, CHAPEL 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:
- 26-50, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4157207987
Details
SD4108SE
663-1/8/135
11/08/72
ORMSKIRK
CHAPEL STREET
(West side)
Nos.26-50 (Even)
GV
II
Row of 13 cottages. Earlier C19, in 2 builds; variously
altered.
Brown brick in English garden wall bond (5+1), some painted
and some rendered, with sandstone dressings and slate roof.
Double-depth, all single-fronted, with a through-lobby between
Nos 32 & 34 and a waggon entry between Nos 42 & 44; and
various back extensions.
Two low storeys, 15 windows in all (one each except Nos 34 &
44 which have a second window over their respective entries).
Nos 26-32 have coupled round-headed doorways, all except No.32
having fanlights with radiating glazing bars, and the others
have square-headed doorways, mostly coupled, with wedge
lintels; the lobby entry has a round-headed arch; the waggon
entry has a basket arch with keystone, recesses in the side
walls for former double doors, and a cobbled floor, and above
it is a small gable containing a round-headed sashed window
with radiating glazing bars.
The facades of Nos 28 & 38 are painted, those of Nos 5, 32-36
and Nos 40-46 rendered or pebble-dashed. All the windows have
raised sills and wedge lintels (except where covered by
render); unhorned 16-pane sashed windows survive at No.26
(ground floor only), No.30 & No.44; Nos 38 and 42 have 4-pane
sashes; but all the others have altered glazing.
The roof steps up between Nos 34 & 36, and again between Nos
42 & 44; Nos 36-50 have moulded gutter cornices; and all the
cottages have large lateral ridge chimney stacks.
Forms the largest component of a continuous group of similar
cottages on this side of Chapel Street.
Listing NGR: SD4157207987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386372
- 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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