74 AND 76, MAIN STREET

74 AND 76, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362456
Date first listed:
07-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
74 AND 76, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
74 AND 76, MAIN STREET
Numbers  74 and 76 Warton Main Street. Houses from 1634, altered.
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362456
Date first listed:
07-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
74 AND 76, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
74 AND 76, 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.

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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:
74 AND 76, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Warton
National Grid Reference:
SD4987872211

Details

SD 47 SE WARTON MAIN STREET (SOUTH SIDE)

3/234 Nos. 74 and 76

II


Houses. 1634, altered. Limestone rubble with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. 2 storeys. Drip course, now cut back, runs across both houses.
No.76 (to left) has modern porch to doorway with plain reveals, a modern
window with rebated and chamfered head to the right and a rebated and
chamfered 1st floor window surround. Present windows to No.74 are sashed
with plain stone heads and cement jambs, with one to the left of the door
and 4 on the 1st floor. At far left is a blocked one-light C17th chamfered
window. At the right is a wide triangular-headed chamfered opening to The
Thoroughfare, with matching opening in the rear wall. Front door has plain
stone surround with '1634 RH' in raised letters with shield on lintel.
Chimneys between Nos. 74 and 76, and to left and right of opening to The
Thoroughfare. Coping and footstone on right-hand gable. Rear wall pebble-
dashed, with chamfered window surround having fixed light with glazing bars
over yard entrance, and some rebated and chamfered surrounds.


Listing NGR: SD4987872211

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
182004
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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