Description

SD 63 NW LONGRIDGE HIGHER ROAD

7/125 Nos 6 to 44
27.10.71 [formerly listed as Nos 4 to 44
(even)]

II

Row of houses, begun in 1793. Squared coursed sandstone with slate roof
and brick stacks, except that on the gable (left-hand) wall of No. 44. 2
storeys-with cellars entered at lower ground level to the rear. Windows
have plain reveals and projecting stone sills, with modern windows. Each
house is of one bay, with the doors of adjacent houses paired, with a third
door, leading through a tunnel to the yard, between them. The doorways have
plain stone surrounds. Some of the houses now have an extra window on the
1st floor over the door. Nos. 6, 8 and 44 have stone gutter brackets. A
keyed joint between No. 24 and 26 indicates a break in construction. Built
by the Longridge Building Society, one of the earliest terminating building
societies in the country, and used as an example by Price, Seymour J.,
Building Societies, their Origin and History, Cambridge, 1958, pp 32-44.

Listing NGR: SD6083037384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Club Row at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26595125

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)