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SD 3448
2/41

QUEEN'S TERRACE
No 7
Former Customs House

(Formerly listed as No 7 (Wyre Borough Treasurer's and Borough Housing Departments)

GV
II

1836. Architect Decimus Burton. Built originally as the Customs' House, and the first building in the town. Subsequently the Town Hall, Roughcast. Two storeys. Moulded eaves cornice. Blocking course. Elaborate ornamental iron cresting over south part, with finials at corners. Eight ranges of sashes. North three break forward. South five have moulded surrounds, those on ground floor with moulded cornices. Two Tuscan porches with full entablature, that to north with square columns and closed sides, that to south with round columns and open sides with cast iron railings. South porch has sane cast iron cresting as cornice. Step up to porches, with flanking cast iron railings with spear finials, continued across front.

Listing NGR: SD3404948088

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327993

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)