44, WATERGATE

44, WATERGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1294973
Date first listed:
01-May-1951
List Entry Name:
44, WATERGATE
Statutory Address:
44, WATERGATE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1294973
Date first listed:
01-May-1951
List Entry Name:
44, WATERGATE
Statutory Address 1:
44, WATERGATE

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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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:
44, WATERGATE

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whitchurch Urban
National Grid Reference:
SJ5424041365

Details

SJ 5441
8/136
1.5.51

WHITCHURCH URBAN CP
WATERGATE
(north-east side)

No 44

GV
II

House, now house and shop. Circa 1700, altered in the early- to mid-C20, and
again in the late C20. Red brick, with some sandstone dressings. Plain tile
roof. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins (those to right-hand rebuilt), plain
wooden fascia, and coped parapeted gable ends (rebuilt in C20) with integral brick
end stacks. Three C20 roof lights. 5 bays; first-floor wooden cross windows and
ground-floor C18 boxed 4-pane sashes (glazing bars removed), with painted stone
cills and lintels. Inserted C20 plate-glass shop-front to right. Roughly central
doorway (reset slightly to the right - see straight joint) with C20 half-glazed
door, rectangular overlight and painted stone lintel. INTERIOR: Well-detailed
pre-1720 dog-leg oak staircase, rising 2 floors, with half-landings, pulvinated
closed string, stubby column-on-vase balusters, moulded ramped handrail, and
panelled square newel posts with moulded caps. Depressed archway to ground-floor
corridor with panelled pilasters.

Listing NGR: SJ5424041365

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
260693
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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