Tudor Solarium

15 AND 17, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365162
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Tudor Solarium
Statutory Address:
15 AND 17, MARKET STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365162
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Tudor Solarium
Statutory Address 1:
15 AND 17, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address 2:
TUDOR SOLARIUM, MARKET 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:
15 AND 17, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address:
TUDOR SOLARIUM, MARKET STREET

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
North Warwickshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Atherstone
National Grid Reference:
SP 30844 97888

Details

ATHERSTONE MARKET STREET SP3097 (South-east side) 9/70 Nos.15 and 17 and Tudor 25/03/68 Solarium GV II House, now shops and solarium; part of row. C16 with C19 alterations. Roughcast, probably over timber-framing. Plain-tile roof has two gables; jettied to No.15 on right. Massive central stack of thin bricks has 2 square shafts with pilaster strips. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Central plank door in moulded wood surround. No. 17 on left has central C20 half-glazed door but with old overlight and 2 early C19 canted shop windows with glazing bars. First floor has C20 cross window. No.15 has late C19 shop front with half-glazed 4-panelled door, shop window and cornice with brackets continued across central doorway. First floor has two 4-pane sashes. Interior has chamfered beams. No.17 has former open fireplace, with moulded cornice, towards rear. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p77)

Listing NGR: SP3084497888

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Legacy System number:
309159
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 77

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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