Former Solicitor's Office
FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- 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
- Rights:
- © Mr Gordon Furness. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335779
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Solicitor's Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SOLICITOR'S OFFICE, MAIN 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76841
- 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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