Rafa Club
RAFA CLUB, 40A, MAIDEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142292
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Rafa Club
- Statutory Address:
- RAFA CLUB, 40A, MAIDEN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142292
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Rafa Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAFA CLUB, 40A, MAIDEN 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:
- RAFA CLUB, 40A, MAIDEN 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 67966 78752
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE MAIDEN STREET 873-1/23/222 (West side) 14/06/74 No.40A RAFA Club (Formerly Listed as: MAIDEN STREET (West side) Royal Naval Patrol HQ) (Formerly Listed as: ST EDMUND STREET (South side) No.1)
GV II
Club and commercial premises. C17, but late C19 fenestration. Portland stone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: part of a larger block of development extending to the Quay, and the Duke of Cornwall in St Edmund Street (qv). At N end, where the property returns to St Edmund Street, are high coped gables facing E and N. Ground floor incorporates public conveniences, and there is no entrance to the principal property from St Edmund Street. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; a unit separately occupied on the ground floor, immediately adjoining the Ship, has a small 2-light raking dormer above 2 and 4-light casements in plain reveals. At the ground floor a doorway to the Ship intrudes, then there is a wide 6-panel door in a flat basket-handle arch, and a large 4-light casement as above. To the right is a small 2-light flush stone-mullioned casement over a C20 door under label course. The gable has 2-light above 3-light early mullioned casements with labels, and at the ground floor 3 small square lights and a further C20 door with label. A C17 cannon ball remains embedded in the gable masonry to the left of the casement. The return to St Edmund Street has a similar gable, with 2 over 3-light, the latter a C20 facsimile; to its right is a 2-light with, all these with label courses. Ground floor has a central doorway and shallow flanking lights, all of the late C20. The gables have saddle-back copings and haunched and scrolled kneelers; the N gable is less wide, springing at a higher level than the other. This section has a plinth with moulded offset. INTERIOR: retains nothing visible from the early fabric; the roof was not inspected. This building was part of a C17 development, with the
adjoining Ship Inn (qv) and Duke of Cornwall (qv) and is important as part of the street scene and in retaining C17 fabric, now relatively scarce in the town. The loss of interior detail is to be regretted. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 349).
Listing NGR: SY6796678752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467724
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 349
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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