WYKE CASTLE

WYKE CASTLE, 1, 2 AND 3, PIRATES LANE, DT4 9GL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147995
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: WYKE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: WYKE CASTLE, 1, 2 AND 3, PIRATES LANE, DT4 9GL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1147995
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: WYKE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: WYKE CASTLE, 1, 2 AND 3, PIRATES LANE, DT4 9GL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WYKE CASTLE, 1, 2 AND 3, PIRATES LANE, DT4 9GL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 66025 77317

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/09/2016 SY 67 NE 873-1/4/652

WEYMOUTH, WYKE REGIS, Pirates Lane, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, Wyke Castle

(Formerly listed as: WESTHILL ROAD Wyke Regis (West side), Nos.1, 2 and 2A Wyke Castle) (Previously listed as: WESTHILL ROAD, Wyke Regis Wyke Castle)

14.06.74

II

Folly castle, now 3 dwellings; original purpose uncertain. Early C19. Coursed and squared Portland stone, slate and lead roofs. PLAN: a strange composition with a circular low tower at the apex of an acute-angled complex; to Westhill Road, which slopes down from the tower, there is a second, square tower linked to the first by a low gabled range, and to the right, on a lane falling towards the Fleet, a rectangular block linked to the round tower by a low gabled range and with a lower range beyond. EXTERIOR: the corner tower (No.2) has 2 small lancet-like slits, and an inserted 3-light late C20 window; a high parapet with sunk panels, above a string course of hemispherical modillions. A small stack on the NE side. The link block to the left has a gabled roof, with plain walling containing 1 replica casement, linked in turn to the square tower with a high plain parapet on a series of wide-spaced square brackets, above a small arched light in the S wall. A stack on the N wall. A section of approx 3m of boundary wall continues to the S and returns to C20 garages. To the right of the circular tower the link block has 1 and 3-light late C20 casements, and a projecting square porch with outer and inner doorways to basket-handle arches. The tower beyond (No.1) has a hipped roof behind a high plain stone parapet on square brackets. It is in 2 storeys, with small plain lights to stone lintels; the door is far left, set in deep reveals. There are 2 stacks. A lower, rendered unit (No.2A) has a lean-to roof to a crenellated outer wall. INTERIORS: not inspected, but much modification appears to have been made. The previous list refers to a top-lit gallery with arcading and deep embrasures to the corner tower. This is a very eccentric work, but the exterior forms and detail have been little changed in conversion to current habitation. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 373).

Listing NGR: SY6603577680

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Legacy System number:: 468032
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 373

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.