54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET

54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1304891
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET
Statutory Address:
54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1304891
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET
Statutory Address 1:
54 AND 56, CHEAP 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
54 AND 56, CHEAP STREET

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sherborne
National Grid Reference:
ST 63845 16633

Details

CHEAP STREET 1. 1625 (South West Side) Nos 54 and 56 ST 6316 1/318 II GV 2. 1850 circa. 2 small buildings with shops at Cheap Street entrance to Methodist Church. 2 storey 1 bay ashlar fronts to Cheap Street with door- ways in splayed inner corner bays. Slate gabled roofs. Upper window in No 56 with slate gable and bargeboard over. Contemporary shop fronts, in each building with 1 window to Cheap Street and another window to return fronts; similarly shaped fanlights to corner doorways. Return fronts of brick; 3 window each above; below, in each front, a shop window, a square- headed doorway and a segmental headed window. Door to No 54 with cover strips, 6-flush panelled door to No 56. At west end, windows at an intermediate level and set on a curve.

Nos 54 and 56, Gate, lamp and overthrow between Nos 54 and 56, The Methodist Church and Nos 58 to 82 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: ST6384316633

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
103916
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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