Hazlitt House
HAZLITT HOUSE, 17, NOBLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1366784
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hazlitt House
- Statutory Address:
- HAZLITT HOUSE, 17, NOBLE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02125/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1366784
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hazlitt House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAZLITT HOUSE, 17, NOBLE 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:
- HAZLITT HOUSE, 17, NOBLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5126128957
Details
1.
5358
SJ 3128
3/73
28.8.51
NOBLE STREET
(south side)
No 17
(Hazlitt House)
II*
GV
2.
Early C18 painted brick house. Plain tile roof with gabled ends. Taller centre
bay has hipped roof, brick pilaster quoins and string course. Two storeys. Four
bays. Two and 3-light casement windows with leaded panes, some in segmental-headed
openings. Left of centre a moulded doorcase, glazed door and hood on brackets.
Plaque above inscribed "In this house lived the Reverend William Hazlitt from
1787 to 1813 and his son William Hazlitt essayist and critic from 1787 to 1799."
Brick chimney stack near centre and another at east end.
Gabled wing at rear with stone coping with moulded kneelers.
Interior: Rear ground floor room has C17 panelling (said to have come from the
church) with fluted frieze and carved panels over an C18 moulded stone chimney
piece.
Adjacent to the south-west is the derelict remains of the Old Victorian Chapel of
which William Hazlitt, senior, was minister.
Listing NGR: SJ5126128957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259980
- 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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