61, ST THOMAS STREET

61, ST THOMAS STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147965
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
61, ST THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address:
61, ST THOMAS STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1147965
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
61, ST THOMAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:
61, 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
61, 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 67882 78855

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6778NE ST THOMAS STREET 873-1/23/351 (West side) No.61

II

Commercial building. Mid C19. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. In muscular Venetian Gothic, with practically unchanged facade. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 windows; a small paired sash, with arched top lights, and 2 plain sashes, in flush alternating jambs and to flush lintel and sill bands, above paired pointed lights with central colonnette shaft, under a continuous label with small leaf stops, to flush alternating chamfered jambs and a sill band. Ground floor has a lofty shop front in fluted pilasters and consoles to a dentil cornice and deep fascia. The recessed door with fluted pilasters is glazed above a fielded panel, and to narrow side-lights. It is flanked by plate-glass display windows, and all under a very deep transom light, the glass replaced by plastic sheet. To the left, in a stone panel and under a simple cornice mould, is a wide pair of original panelled doors in a moulded doorway with double colonnettes, and a stilted segmental head over a deep tripartite transom light, with moulded arch, and spandrels with blind quatrefoils. Above the ground floor are flush alternating quoins, and the deep eaves, between moulded kneelers to a coped raised gables, has close-set carved stone brackets. A large brick stack to the right. The rear wall, in yellow and red brickwork, is in 4 bays, with large 4-pane sashes to segmental heads, an eaves stack, and a long gabled wing. INTERIOR: is severely plain, with simple 4-panel doors, but the main dogleg staircase is retained, with heavy turned newels to acorn finials, turned balusters and a solid moulded string; the staircase hall floor is in patterned tile. Although quite different from the traditional C18 or early C19 Melcombe Regis street front, this is a very characteristic and well-retained facade, reflecting Ruskin's mid-century enthusiasm for Venetian work.



Listing NGR: SY6787578859

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Legacy System number:
467933
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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