Description

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SU 7433
11/22
25.8.77

SELBORNE
HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE)
The lines (Queens Annex)
(Formerly listed as The Old Butcher's Shop)

GV
II

Store. C18. Walls of ashlar malmstone with brick quoins and stepped plinth band. The coupled openings have metal bars, and there is a casement in the south wall. Hipped tiled roof with hipped dormers (with louvres) at each end, the roof being brought forward as a forecourt canopy, on four posts. Symmetrical front (south-west) of one storey, two windows, with an attic window at each end, Central plain door. Small rear extension and rear door. Two old lime trees stand in front of the building, the survivors of four planted by Gilbert White in 1756 "...to hide the sight of blood and filth from ye windows" (of his house opposite).

Listing NGR: SU7410633678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26634289

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide