79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384187
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2007-06-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/16414/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384187
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79 AND 81, MAIN 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:
- 79 AND 81, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65895 92141
Details
SEDBERGH
SD6592SE MAIN STREET, Sedbergh Town
162-1/26/417 (South side)
14/06/84 Nos.79 AND 81
GV II
Pair of town houses. Probably early to mid C19; altered.
Slobbered mixed random rubble, hipped slate roof. Unusual plan
centred on a wide through-passage at ground floor in each side
of which each house has its "front" door.
3 storeys and 3 windows, symmetrical, with a wide
semi-elliptical archway in the centre of the ground floor,
with dressed voussoirs and an arch-band, and closed by a
wooden and glazed screen, probably formerly like that at the
rear but now with double-doors flanked by plain-glazed windows
all under an overlight of 4 Tudor-arched lights. Abutting the
jambs of the archway are stone walls approx. 2 metres high
enclosing small service yards. The 1st floor has tall 20-pane
sashed windows, the 2nd floor has shorter 16-pane sashes.
Side-wall chimneys; skylight in centre of roof. In the passage
each house has a C19 6-panel door. The rear end of the passage
has a wooden and glazed screen with small-paned glazing. Rear:
windows replaced with plastic double-glazing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD6589892141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484620
- 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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