54 and 56 Main Street

54 and 56, Main Street, King's Newton

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1334625
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
54 and 56 Main Street
Statutory Address:
54 and 56, Main Street, King's Newton
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1334625
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
54 and 56 Main Street
Statutory Address 1:
54 and 56, Main Street, King's Newton

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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:
54 and 56, Main Street, King's Newton

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Melbourne
National Grid Reference:
SK3887126182

Details

SK 32 NE
3/123

10.11.67

PARISH OF MELBOURNE
KINGS NEWTON
MAIN STREET (south side)
Nos 54 and 56

GV
II

Pair of cottages, now house. C15, C16 and C18 with early C19 addition and early C20 alterations. Cruck frame and square panel timber frame on stone plinth with brick nogging, also painted brick. Early C20 red clay tile roof with brick side wall stack to west and a large brick ridge stack, also a brick side wall stack to centre of street elevation.

Single storey plus attics and four bays, that to west early C19. South elevation has a long range at right angles to east with one bay of square panel timber framing to north end. Adjacent to west there is a plank door with small pane overlight in a single bay of timber framing. Bays to west are constructed in red brick and have a C20 door flanked to west by a two-light casement and to east by a similar three-light window. Above there are two gabled dormers with two-light casement windows. Street elevation has a brick bay to west with a segment headed glazing bar sash and timber framed bays to east, that to far east lower and with smaller panels than the other bays. There is a central brick lean-to with a two-light small pane casement window to west face and a C20 inserted window and panelled door to west. To east side of lean-to there is a plank door with a two-light small pane casement above in a gabled half dormer. Beyond to east there is a two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash. East gable wall has exposed cruck truss with a yoked ridge, the remains of two collars and the eaves sprockets to either side. This is the only surviving cruck truss.

Listing NGR: SK3887126182

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Legacy System number:
83107
Legacy System:
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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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