23 Cathedral Yard and 55 and 56 High Street
23, CATHEDRAL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380782
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 23 Cathedral Yard and 55 and 56 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 23, CATHEDRAL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380782
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 23 Cathedral Yard and 55 and 56 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, CATHEDRAL YARD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 55 AND 56, HIGH STREET
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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:
- 23, CATHEDRAL YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 55 AND 56, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91998 92627
Details
SX 9192 NE CATHEDRAL YARD
871/2/10061 23
23-JUN-00 HIGH STREET
(Northeast side)
55 AND 56
II
Shop with offices above. c.1880s possibility of earlier core. Bath stone ashlar with red brick dressings and slate roof with spikey ridge tiles. Gothic Revival.
Plan: Deep rectangular plan.
Exterior: 4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a steep, coped gable to the front with kneelers and a finial at the apex; stone mullioned windows. Shop front obscured for renovations at time of inspection. The centre bay rises to a moulded arched head in the gable. Outer windows are set in recesses to left and right. On the first floor the central bay contains a canted oriel with a modillion frieze, glazed with one-light high-transomed windows with blind trefoiled heads. To right and left similar flush windows have panels of flamboyant tracery above the lintels; similar windows above, 3-light to the centre bay and 2-light to the flanking bays with modillion frieze above panels of decorated style blind tracery. Third floor window to the centre bay only. 3-high transomed lights, the upper lights with arched heads below a brick herringbone tympanum containing a cinquefoil. Moulded cornices on modillion brackets extend across the outer bays at the transom level of the 3rd floor window.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may retain features of interest. The building to rear of Nos: 55 and 56 faces onto Cathedral Yard and is built in a similar style (No.23, Cathedral Yard q.v.).
This is a good example of a Victorian Gothic commercial front.
Listing NGR: SX9200092622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481106
- 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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