LENNOX HOUSE

LENNOX HOUSE, 47, LENNOX STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142331
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: LENNOX HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LENNOX HOUSE, 47, LENNOX STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1142331
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: LENNOX HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LENNOX HOUSE, 47, LENNOX STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LENNOX HOUSE, 47, LENNOX 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 68115 79909

Details

WEYMOUTH

SO6879NW LENNOX STREET 873-1/18/205 (North side) 14/06/74 No.47 Lennox House

II

House at end of row, built as detached villa. c1845 (RCHME). Painted brickwork or rubble, slate roof. A compact symmetricl 4-room range, with central throughway and small lateral staircase, with later C19 modification, to a pyramidal hipped roof, the building now occupies a busy street intersection. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 windows; 16-pane sashes, at first floor with raised alternating jamb-stones, and at ground floor to voussoirs and keystone in rustication. Bay 3 has a full-height canted Victorian bay with 4-pane sashes, and flat roof. The central flush C19 panelled door with part glazing under an elliptical fanlight is under a projecting portico on 2 slender wood columns without bases carrying a semicircular flat-roofed entablature. A slight plinth, a plain mid-string above rusticated ground floor, and alternating quoins to the first floor. The right return, to Victoria Street, is plain, but with one very small light at first floor, and a large cropped stack, plus a small lower wing. The rear, in painted rubble, has 2 original flat-roofed dormers over two 12-pane sashes and a staircase sash above a C19 door. INTERIOR: not inspected. According to RCHME this was named Victoria Villa on an 1857 map, and marked as 'Hydrophatic (Hydropathic) baths' (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 357).

Listing NGR: SY6811579909

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Legacy System number:: 467695
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 357

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.