2, BELL STREET
2, BELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323611
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, BELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323611
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 2, BELL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, BELL 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:
- 2, BELL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 01737 78971
Details
BELL STREET 1. 5190 (west side) No 2 [formerly listed as No 343 High Street (Herston Post Office)] SZ 0178 3/10 26.6.52 II GV
2. On the corner of Bell Street and High Street. Probably C18. Now used as a shop. Purbeck Stone walls and roof. Two storeys and attics. Bell Street elevation has a door, and modern shop window and door on the ground floor. South of the door a window has been reduced in width - formerly a double-hung sash. First floor has 2 double-hung sashes with glazing bars. Two dormers to attic with hipped roofs and double-hung sashes. Elevation to High Street has gable end. Modern shop window on ground floor. See also Nos 343 and 345 High Street. RCHM Monument 57.
Listing NGR: SZ0173778971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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