53, ST MARY STREET, 2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET

2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132624
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:
53, ST MARY STREET, 2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET
Statutory Address:
2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1132624
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:
53, ST MARY STREET, 2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET
Statutory Address 1:
2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET
Statutory Address 2:
53, ST MARY STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
2 AND 3, ST EDMUND STREET
Statutory Address:
53, ST MARY 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 67919 78763

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6778NE ST EDMUND STREET
873-1/23/283 (South side)
18/06/70 Nos.2 AND 3

GV II

Includes: No.53 ST MARY STREET.
Pair of houses with shop, at end of row, returning to No.53 St
Mary Street. Early C19. Rendered, slate roof.
3 storeys, each 2 windows, glazing-bar sashes in plain reveals
on stone sills; 9-pane at second floor, and deep 12-pane at
first floor to a continuous balcony, returned one bay to the
left, on iron brackets and with boarded soffit, carrying an
original decorative cast-iron balustrade with honeysuckle
motifs.
The channelled ground floor has a late C19 shop front in 3
narrow and 3 wider panes to thin mullions, with recessed
central glazed doors; there is a one-bay return of the display
front to St Mary Street. Above the first-floor windows are 2
broad flat raised panels, with 'Beehive Stores' faintly
visible from earlier painting.
Return front has 2 eaves stacks, and 2 windows plus a blank
light at first and second floors, with a replacement window to
the ground floor; to the left is a panelled door under a
radial fanlight. A moulded cornice, with slight
blocking-course and coped parapet, also on the return
frontage.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 350).

Listing NGR: SY6792078760

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
467881
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 350

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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