Wadham Guest House
WADHAM GUEST HOUSE, 22, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084191
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wadham Guest House
- Statutory Address:
- WADHAM GUEST HOUSE, 22, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084191
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Wadham Guest House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADHAM GUEST HOUSE, 22, EAST STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WADHAM GUEST HOUSE, 22, EAST STREET
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 68058 78762
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6878NW EAST STREET 873-1/24/93 (East side) 12/12/53 No.22 Wadham Guest House (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (East side) No.22)
GV II
House in row. c1800. Rendered, slate roof. EXTERIOR: a large, rather grand house with double mansard roof, in 3 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows; 6-pane flat-roofed dormers above a 2-storey bow with 8:12:8-pane sashes and dentil cornices with to the left a 12-pane sash at first and second floor. Ground floor bow oriel is recessed under an overhang on 2 slender cast-iron columns, with a flat tripartite sash to the basement. To the left, on 6 stone steps with nosings, a panelled door under plain fanlight and with reeded jambs is set deep in an arched reveal, with outer doorcase having reeded pilasters and arch to square stops with circular embellishment. A dwarf wall with iron railing to the basement area, a small modillion cornice, carried across the top of the bow, blocking course and coped parapet. The gables have raised coped verges, with 2 rendered stacks. The rear is also in original detail, with a single flat-roofed dormer with wide 12-pane (4x3) sash, behind a coped parapet, and above tripartite sashes with glazing bars at 2 levels. To the right is a very lofty staircase sash, 3 panes wide and 7 deep. The gables are raised and coped. INTERIOR: not inspected, but a dogleg stair with stick balustrade is opposite the entrance, and panelled doors in moulded architraves remain. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 348).
Listing NGR: SY6805978761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 348
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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