21, FOUNTAIN STREET

21, FOUNTAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374996
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
21, FOUNTAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
21, FOUNTAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374996
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
21, FOUNTAIN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
21, FOUNTAIN 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
21, FOUNTAIN STREET

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ulverston
National Grid Reference:
SD 28742 78451

Details

ULVERSTON

SD2878 FOUNTAIN STREET 626-1/3/149 (North side) 20/06/85 No.21

GV II

House, later Liberal Club now flats. 1755, converted 1990s. Incised stucco on brick; graduated Lakeland slate roof (Palladian style). 3 storeys and attic, 4 windows and a projecting 2-storey, 2-bay left entrance extension. C20 door in right bay. Renewed windows in original openings with raised surrounds and stone sills; the first floor is a piano nobile with longer windows and a sill band. Eaves cornice and full-width pediment with recessed lunette in tympanum. Flagpole on corbel below eaves. Entrance section has a tall round arch, with patterned ironwork in head and steps up to deeply-recessed original door, under a tiny lunette in right bay. C20 garage doors under two C20 pivoted windows in left bay. INTERIOR: now converted to flats but noted as retaining many C18 features including staircase, chimney-pieces, many 6-panel doors and a half-domed elliptical alcove with rich mouldings.

Listing NGR: SD2877478489

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
459914
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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