Letterbox Cottage
LETTERBOX COTTAGE, RADIPOLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271638
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Letterbox Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE, RADIPOLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271638
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Letterbox Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE, RADIPOLE LANE
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:
- LETTERBOX COTTAGE, RADIPOLE LANE
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 66427 81389
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6681SW RADIPOLE LANE, Radipole 873-1/11/498 (East side) 12/12/53 Letterbox Cottage
II
Formerly known as: Pillar Box Cottages RADIPOLE LANE Radipole. Detached house. C18. Rubble, thatch roof. A long low building facing E, with its back wall to the edge of the road, with a slight curve at the S end. There are 4 straight joints in the masonry, showing successive builds or infill action, and the roof is lower at the S end. One-and-a-half storeys. The main front, to the garden, has various casements, mainly with horizontal bars. At the left hand end, at the eaves to the lower roof, is a 2-light with small panes, then 2 hipped stone gables with 2-light casements above 3-lights at ground floor; centred to these is a 2-light dormer above a plank door plus 2-light. At the right-hand end is a pair of French doors, and a 3-light small-pane casement. The long, low one-storey road front has 4 square openings with very deep-set 4-pane casements to tiled sills. The half-hipped S end has an early 2-light iron casement with leading, above another similar casement and a very wide plank door with a ledge hood. There are 2 ridge stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 364).
Listing NGR: SY6642781389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467842
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 364
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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