183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371667
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
- Statutory Address:
- 183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371667
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
- Statutory Address 1:
- 183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
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:
- 183 AND 185, WATLING STREET WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Towcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69305 48677
Details
TOWCESTER WATLING STREET WEST SP6948 13/192 Nos.183 and 185 01/12/51 (Formerly listed as No.183, No.185)
GV II
House and attached cottage. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations. Painted brick, C20 tile roofs, brick ridge and end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storey, 4-window range. 5-panel door to right of centre with ornamental overlight flanked by pairs of Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature with triglyph frieze. Tripartite horned sash windows to ground floor left and right with moulded stone surrounds and keyblocks. 4-panel double-leaf door to far left with overlight and rendered surround with blocked lintel. C19 horned plate glass sash windows to first floor with moulded stone surrounds. Plinth, storey band and moulded cornice. Service cottage to left, of painted brick under same roof, a 2-storey, 2-window range, has 5-panel door to right approached by 3 stone steps with overlight and rendered surround with keyblock. C19 horned sash windows to ground and first floors with segmental brick heads. Plinth and dentilled brick eaves. Interior: house has chequered stone-paved staircase hall, open-well staircase with stick balusters, carved tread ends and ramped handrail. 6-panel doors in reeded surrounds. Two early C19 reeded marble chimneypieces and brick-lined cellar.
Listing NGR: SP6930548677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235214
- 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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