Preston Day Nursery
PRESTON DAY NURSERY, 7, SUTTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148071
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Day Nursery
- Statutory Address:
- PRESTON DAY NURSERY, 7, SUTTON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04456/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148071
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Day Nursery
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESTON DAY NURSERY, 7, SUTTON ROAD
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:
- PRESTON DAY NURSERY, 7, SUTTON ROAD
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 70461 83173
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY7083 SUTTON ROAD, Preston 873-1/9/483 (West side) 14/06/74 No.7 Preston Day Nursery (Formerly Listed as: SUTTON ROAD, Preston No.7 (Vicarage) and St Giles Cottage)
GV II
Detached house, formerly vicarage. Early C19. Smooth rendered, slate roof, brick stack. A large square block with low-pitched hipped roof and deep eaves; the internal layout may have been modified, but has a central hall, entered from the S, with principal staircase rising to the right. 2 storeys, 3 windows; 12-pane sashes, widely spaced, in plain reveals and on stone sills. The central panelled door is covered by a C20 glazed porch with tent hood. The return front (W) is similar, in 3 bays, with central pair of French doors, and the remains of a former glazed canopy, and the E side is in 4 bays. The back wall has been rebuilt, following separation from the former service wing. The large stack, with a reeded edge to the capping, is offset on the ridge towards the left. INTERIOR: part of the ground floor only was inspected. There are good 6-panel original doors, window shutters, and moulded cornices. The lateral stair with quarter-landings may be a replacement. To the rear, No.9, St Andrew's Cottage (qv), was formerly attached to the Vicarage as a service wing, and known as St Giles' Cottage.
Listing NGR: SY7046183173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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