THE OLD WATCH HOUSE THE SHELL SHOP THE SHELL SHOP (THE OLD WATCH HOUSE)

THE OLD WATCH HOUSE, MARINE PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229884
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: THE OLD WATCH HOUSE THE SHELL SHOP THE SHELL SHOP (THE OLD WATCH HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: THE OLD WATCH HOUSE, MARINE PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229884
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: THE OLD WATCH HOUSE THE SHELL SHOP THE SHELL SHOP (THE OLD WATCH HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD WATCH HOUSE, MARINE PARADE
Statutory Address 2:: THE SHELL SHOP (THE OLD WATCH HOUSE), MARINE PARADE
Statutory Address 3:: THE SHELL SHOP, MARINE PARADE

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:: THE OLD WATCH HOUSE, MARINE PARADE
Statutory Address:: THE SHELL SHOP (THE OLD WATCH HOUSE), MARINE PARADE
Statutory Address:: THE SHELL SHOP, MARINE PARADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lyme Regis
National Grid Reference:: SY 33786 91686

Details

MARINE PARADE 1. 1357 (North Side) The Shell Shop (The Old Watch House) SY 3391 2/76 II GV 2. C19 front. 2-storeys. 2 window bays. Peaked slate roof above left hand bay with parapet continuing over right hand bay. Stuccoed front. In left hand bay, wide sash window on 1st floor and modern shop front on ground floor. In right hand bay, sash window without glazing bars above; below it, a ledged door with glazed panel in lower part. In south-west return, 2 widely spaced 1st floor windows. Grade II for group value.

Nos 14 to 20 (consec), Cobb House flats, the Old Bonded Store flats and shops and the Shell Shop form a group. The Customs House, Cobb Road, partly closes the vista at the south-west end of Marine Parade.

Listing NGR: SY3378691686

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Legacy System number:: 404699
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.