26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147957
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147957
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS 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:
- 26, 27 AND 28, ST THOMAS 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 67930 78961
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE ST THOMAS STREET 873-1/23/343 (East side) 14/06/74 Nos.26, 27 AND 28
GV II
3 houses in row, 2 with shops. Early C19. Flemish bond brickwork, slate mansard roofs, but modified to Nos 27 & 28. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, each 1 window; No.26 has a wide tripartite sash flat-roofed dormer. Nos 26 & 27 have 2-storey oriels, and No.28 retains the original format of a full-height bow; all have 6:9:6-pane sashes to the top floor, with dentil cornices, and 8:12:8-pane sashes remain to Nos 27 & 28, but No.26 and the ground floor to No.28 have no glazing bars. No.26 has a splendid late C19 shop front, with contemporary shutters, and with decorative cast-iron cresting above panelled pilasters and double consoles. No.27 has a plate-glass front between pilasters and very deep consoles and shallow fascia with remains of a dentil cornice. No.28 has, to the right, in an arched opening and on 3 steps, an original 6-panel door under a reversed fan transom light, in deep reveals. A plain band above first floor, moulded cornice, blocking-course and coped parapet. Each has a brick stack to the left. INTERIOR: the plan in RCHME (p.348) show a transverse staircase dividing the 2 rooms, and service additions to the rear. This remains one of the best examples of the former domestic architecture of the Melcombe Regis streets. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 348, 352).
Listing NGR: SY6793178966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 352
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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