Gadsby's of Southwell Gossips Coffee House
GADSBY'S OF SOUTHWELL, 24 AND 26, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369901
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gadsby's of Southwell Gossips Coffee House
- Statutory Address:
- GADSBY'S OF SOUTHWELL, 24 AND 26, KING STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369901
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Gadsby's of Southwell Gossips Coffee House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GADSBY'S OF SOUTHWELL, 24 AND 26, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- GOSSIPS COFFEE HOUSE, 24 AND 26, KING 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:
- GADSBY'S OF SOUTHWELL, 24 AND 26, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- GOSSIPS COFFEE HOUSE, 24 AND 26, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 70147 54002
Details
SOUTHWELL
KING STREET SK7053 1919-0/7/90 (South East side) 09/02/73 Nos.24 & 26 Gadsby's of Southwell / Gossips Coffee House (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.24 & 26 East Midlands Gas Showrooms)
GV II
2 houses, now cakeshop and coffee house. Late C17 and early C19, altered mid C19 and late C20. Brick, the fronts colourwashed, with slate roofs, that to the right steep pitched. 3 storeys. No 24, to right, has gable end to street with remains of coping. Renewed C19 canted oriel bay window with glazing bar casements. Above it, central C19 sash with segmental head. Full-width late C19 pilastered shopfront with corniced fascia and central door flanked by single windows. At the rear, external gable stack and a single glazing bar sash on the first and second floors. Single window early C19 front, to left, has cogged eaves. Central glazing bar sash , and above it a smaller sash, both with keystoned lintels. Central mid C19 shop window with cornice, flanked to right by a blocked door and to left by a round headed passage opening. Interiors refitted late C20.
Listing NGR: SK7014754002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242387
- 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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