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image captionSelfridges department store on Oxford Street in London is one of 423 sites to be added to Historic England s National Heritage List in 2020
A shipwreck, racehorse wash house and world-renowned department store Selfridges have been among the historic sites to have been given extra protection in 2020.
Historic England has added or upgraded 423 National Heritage List sites.
New entries have also included several bridges, churches and a memorial to a lifeboat tragedy.
Also making the list in 2020 were a Victorian railway station, post World War Two tower and Jacobean gardens.
Historic England chief executive Duncan Wilson said: Despite the challenges that the heritage sector has faced this year, 2020 has seen many brilliant additions to the list.
Iconic London department store Selfridges has been reclassified as a building of “more than special interest” after its listed status got an upgrade.
It is among the 423 buildings which have been awarded or updated in their listed status this year by Historic England.
Having previously been Grade II listed, the Oxford Street shop will now be classed as Grade II meaning it is a “building of more than special interest”.
The clock tower on the Selfridges department store in London (Heritage England/PA)
Announcing the change, Historic England said of the famous store: “Through elaborate window dressing, excellent customer service and clever advertising the department store became a social and cultural institution.”
Iconic London department store Selfridges has been reclassified as a building of “more than special interest” after its listed status got an upgrade.
It is among the 423 buildings which have been awarded or updated in their listed status this year by Historic England.
Having previously been Grade II listed, the Oxford Street shop will now be classed as Grade II meaning it is a “building of more than special interest”.
The clock tower on the Selfridges department store in London (Heritage England/PA)
Announcing the change, Historic England said of the famous store: “Through elaborate window dressing, excellent customer service and clever advertising the department store became a social and cultural institution.”
Ketts Castle Villa and Garden, Norwich, Norfolk – Grade II listed
Built in 1957, the little-altered villa is believed to have been designed by, and built for, painter John Berney Ladbrooke.
He was an artist in the Norwich school of painting, a British landscape movement founded in 1803 by a small group of self-taught, working class artists based around Norwich, including his father, Robert Ladbrooke.
The school’s work included landscapes and scenes of rural life, which some commentators have described as a forerunner to both French Impressionism and also to the Newlyn School of Painting in Cornwall.
Archway leading to south entrance of Ketts Castle and Villa, in Thorpe Hamlet, which has this year been given listed status.
Selfridges reclassified as a building of more than special interest after its listed status upgraded
Having previously been Grade II listed, the iconic London department store shop will now be classed as Grade II (Image: Aaron Chown/PA Wire)
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