Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings
NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND FRONT RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084197
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND FRONT RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084197
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND FRONT RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, 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:
- NUMBERS 39 AND 40 AND FRONT RAILINGS, 39 AND 40, 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 68044 78873
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6878NW EAST STREET 873-1/24/97 (West side) 12/12/53 Nos.39 AND 40 and front railings (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (West side) Nos.39 AND 40)
GV II
Pair of houses, part of group of 3. c1800. Flemish bond brickwork, painted at ground floor, slate double mansard roof. 2 storeys, attic and basement, each 1 window, with blind light centred to first floor. Flat-roofed dormer with C20 casement above tripartite 4:12:4-pane sashes with mullions, but at first floor to No.39 with inserted central casement. The basement has also a tripartite sash, without bars to No.39. At the centre are flush 6-panel doors, with glazing to No.40, in a shared moulded architrave, and slight hood with moulded edge and fluted frieze, on 3 console brackets, and all on 6 stone steps. Above the ground-floor windows is a full-width fluted string, and there is a small modillion eaves cornice. Each has a gable stack, and at the rear are dormers above 12-pane sashes; there are small extensions. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: C20 railings on a stone curb to the basement areas. The pair was built as a unit of 3 with No.41 (qv), but this has different ground floor treatment. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 348).
Listing NGR: SY6804278876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467510
- 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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