Bedford House, Bank Buildings
BEDFORD HOUSE, BANK BUILDINGS, 17, ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145968
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford House, Bank Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- BEDFORD HOUSE, BANK BUILDINGS, 17, ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145968
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford House, Bank Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEDFORD HOUSE, BANK BUILDINGS, 17, ESPLANADE
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:
- BEDFORD HOUSE, BANK BUILDINGS, 17, ESPLANADE
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 68154 78795
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6878NW ESPLANADE 873-1/24/108 (South side) 18/06/70 No.17 Bedford House, Bank Buildings
GV II
House in row. c1810-1815 (RCHME). Painted Flemish bond brickwork, slate mansard roof. 3 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows; flat-roofed dormers, one with 16-pane sash, the other with some bars removed, above a full-height flat bow with plain sashes, and dentil cornice to the top level, with a plain sash to the left at first and second floors, above a 6-panel door with plain fanlight, on stone steps, in an arched opening with deep reveals. The basement has a 20-pane sash. To the right is a lead down-pipe and hopper-head. The basement area has a flight of stone steps, and is enclosed by wooden railings. A moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet, a stack to the right. The rear has an original dormer in a slate mansard roof, above plain sashes. INTERIOR has dogleg stair with stick balusters and turned newels, straight through an elliptical-headed opening in the lobby. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 353).
Listing NGR: SY6815478795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 353
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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