VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS

VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS, 4-14, ST JAMES STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244970
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS
Statutory Address:: VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS, 4-14, ST JAMES STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244970
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS
Statutory Address 1:: VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS, 4-14, ST JAMES STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: VIRGIL ANDERTONS SHOPS, 4-14, ST JAMES STREET

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 84252 32537

Details

BURNLEY

SD8432NW ST JAMES STREET 906-1/16/129 (South East side) 18/02/92 Nos.4-14 (Even) Virgil Anderton's shops

GV II

Terraced row of 6 shops. 1876. By Virgil Anderton of Padiham; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with freestone dressings and slate roof. Venetian style. Rectangular plan parallel to street laterally partitioned into 6 narrow units. 3 storeys and 6 bays, divided by superimposed orders of panelled pilasters (the upper with crocketed caps), with fascia bands (all altered or concealed) over the ground floor and a plain frieze and moulded cornice over each upper floor. The ground floor has C20 shop fronts; the 1st and 2nd floors have coupled windows (except the 1st floor of No.4 at the left end which has an unsympathetic C20 window), those at 1st floor round-headed and those at 2nd floor segmental-headed, all with keyed architraves which include prominent sills on carved brackets and panelled pilaster jambs (those at 1st floor with crocketed caps), and mostly sashed without glazing bars (altered glazing at Nos 12 & 14). INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with Nos 16 & 18 to the right (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8425232537

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Legacy System number:: 467201
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.