Snow Hill House and Snow Hill Studio

SNOW HILL HOUSE AND SNOW HILL STUDIO, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362320
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Snow Hill House and Snow Hill Studio
Statutory Address:
SNOW HILL HOUSE AND SNOW HILL STUDIO, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362320
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:
Snow Hill House and Snow Hill Studio
Statutory Address 1:
SNOW HILL HOUSE AND SNOW HILL STUDIO, MAIN STREET

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SNOW HILL HOUSE AND SNOW HILL STUDIO, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Gisburn
National Grid Reference:
SD 82932 48799

Details

SD 82 48 GISBURN MAIN STREET (South Side)

12/72 Snow Hill House and Snow Hill Studio 16-11-1954 (formerly listed as Snow Hill)

GV II

House and shop, C17th. Slobbered rubble with stone slate roof. 2 and 3 storeys with attic. Windows mullioned with outer chamfer and mostly with inner cyma moulding. Snow Hill Studio, to the left, is of one bay and 3 storeys. The ground-floor window is of 3 lights, the 1st and 2nd floor windows of 4 lights with hoods. The door,at the left, has a chamfered stone surround. The ground floor of Snow Hill House corresponds with the 1st floor level of Snow Hill Studio. To the left of the porch is a 5-light window with hood. To the right is a reconstructed 2-light window. On the 1st floor are 2 4-light windows with hoods. The door, reached by external stone steps and enclosed by a timber porch, has a chamfered stone surround. The right-hand (west) gable wall has a one-light chamfered window. The left-hand gable wall has a projecting stack. To the right of the stack on both the 1st and 2nd floors is a one-light chamfered window with segmental head. Above is a 2-light double-chamfered mullioned attic window, the left-hand light having leaded glazing. Chimneys on gables and between house and studio. Both the latter and the left-hand chimney have brick caps.

Listing NGR: SD8293248799

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
183391
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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