The Spice Ship Inn
THE SPICE SHIP INN, 236, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096718
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Spice Ship Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SPICE SHIP INN, 236, PRESTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/04456/29
- Rights:
- © Mr Kenneth Bushell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096718
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Spice Ship Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SPICE SHIP INN, 236, PRESTON ROAD
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:
- THE SPICE SHIP INN, 236, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7051783065
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY7083 PRESTON ROAD, Preston
873-1/9/481 (South side)
14/06/74 No.236
The Spice Ship Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
PRESTON ROAD, Preston
The Ship Inn)
GV II
Inn. Early C19. Painted rubble, slate roof; service wing to
the right rubble with brick dressings and slate roof.
The main building is a long 2-storey range with low-pitched
hipped roof; this has a long central rear wing with slightly
lower ridge and outer gable end. The right end has a painted
brick bay connecting to the service unit with central flush
gable.
2 storeys, 7 windows, sashes with plank external shutters; at
first floor are five 9-pane, with a blind opening far left,
and, at a lower level to right, a 12-pane. Ground floor has
four 16-pane, to cambered lintels; to the far left is a
6-panel flush C19 door, and far right, in the painted brick
link, a further 16-pane with shutters. At the centre, to a
cambered arch, a pair of glazed doors to a lobby with internal
doors. The back includes flat dormer windows, and has a
rounded outer corner to the W end. The later range has a stack
to its left, a loading door above a shuttered opening, and a
large loading bay with C20 shutter on the gable end.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SY7051783065
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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