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21 High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Town, Doncaster

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5231 / 53°31'23"N

Longitude: -1.1332 / 1°7'59"W

OS Eastings: 457561

OS Northings: 403286

OS Grid: SE575032

Mapcode National: GBR NWJP.GS

Mapcode Global: WHDD2.KPLZ

Plus Code: 9C5WGVF8+6P

Entry Name: 21 High Street

Listing Date: 5 September 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1286659

English Heritage Legacy ID: 335041

ID on this website: 101286659

Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1

County: Doncaster

Electoral Ward/Division: Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Doncaster

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Doncaster St George

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 January 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 5703 SE
7/46

TOWN OF DONCASTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
No 21

(Formerly listed as No 21 (Waring and Gillow))

GV
II

Public meeting rooms, now shop. 1841, with C20 alterations. Rendered stone with painted stone dressings, roof hidden behind parapet. Three storeys and three bays. C20 shop front to full width of ground floor. Three semi-circular headed first floor windows in pilastered surrounds with moulded archivolts, panelled keystones and large dentilled open pediments on consoles and dosserets. Mixed fenestration of leaded lights and C20 casements. Moulded sill stringcourse. Similar string-course to second floor interrupted by moulded brackets supporting sills to three six-pane sashes in eared architraves with paterae to the top corners. Stepped frieze and bracketed cornice above. Plain parapets with moulded copings. Reduced side wall stacks.

Built as a rival concern to the Subscription Rooms (1826) (qv) opposite.

Source: 'The Changing Face of Doncaster', by Colin Walton.

Listing NGR: SE5756103286

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