FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE

FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335779
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE
Statutory Address:: FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN STREET

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Date:: 2003-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/10993/09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335779
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN STREET

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hawkshead
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD 35221 98189

Details

HAWKSHEAD MAIN STREET SD 3598 SW (East side) 12/135 Former Solicitor's 25.3.70 office (formerly listed as Magistrates Courts, Premises occupied by W.H. Heelis & Son (adjoining Magistrates Courts Offices)

GV II

National Trust store. Probably C17 but refaced C19. Stucco with slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Top frieze and deep bracketed eaves; quoins. 1st bay has 1st floor over passage leading to Red Lion Yard. Ground floor has canted bay window with small-paned glazing and iron rails to 2nd bay; 3rd bay has window with paired sashes with glazing bars and horns. 1st floor has windows with label moulds which are sashed with glazing bars, that to 2nd bay with horns; 3rd bay has Venetian window, sashed with glazing bars and horns. Entrance has architrave and 4-panel door. Lateral stack and gable-end stacks. Rear has horizontally sliding sash to attic window. Rear wing has recess to ground floor with slate cellar access, 3-light wooden-mullioned windows to 2 sides of recess; former open gallery above; now infilled with glazed bricks. Interior said to have C18 fittings (National Trust survey report). Rear wing adjoins No.1 Red Lion Yard (q.v.). Office once owned by W. Heelis, husband of Beatrix Potter. Property of the National Trust, the gift of Beatrix Potter.

Listing NGR: SD3522198189

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Legacy System number:: 76841
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.