2 AND 4, KING STREET
2 AND 4, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375005
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375005
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 4, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 4, 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:
- 2 AND 4, KING 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 28585 78374
Details
ULVERSTON
SD2878 KING STREET 626-1/3/38 (East side) 20/06/72 Nos.2 AND 4
GV II
Shop with accommodation above. Possibly late C17 with late C19 alterations. Scored painted render with slate roof. 2 storeys. Most of the ground floor is occupied by a shop front with timber fascia and cornice. On the 1st floor there are 3 window openings with plain reveals and projecting sills. The right-hand one is now blank, and the others are sashed. No chimneys are visible. The rear wall is said to have irregular fenestration, and a slate canopy over a doorway.
INTERIOR: Complex evolved interior, with ground floor fittings related to former usage as chemists shop. The upper floors retain domestic character with hearths with moulded surrounds and cast-iron hob grates of late C18 or early C19 date, decorative plaster cornice work, and a moulded C18 door surround. The attic storey is accessed a doorway with a broad planked door. The roof trusses have principals rising from wall corbels, possible the remains of tie beams, with nailed collars. One truss is closed with exposed studwork.
Listing NGR: SD2858578374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459923
- 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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