EDWARDS HOMES

EDWARDS HOMES, 1-5, RODWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271645
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: EDWARDS HOMES
Statutory Address:: EDWARDS HOMES, 1-5, RODWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271645
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: EDWARDS HOMES
Statutory Address 1:: EDWARDS HOMES, 1-5, RODWELL ROAD

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:: EDWARDS HOMES, 1-5, RODWELL 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 67546 78581

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6778NE RODWELL ROAD 873-1/23/251 (East side) Nos.1-5 (Consecutive) Edwards' Homes

GV II

Group of 5 almshouses. 1894. For Sir Henry Edwards. Broadmayne brick, Portland stone dressings, slate roofs with scalloped clay ridges. Tudor Revival style. PLAN: Nos 1-3 are in a T-shaped block, with a main gable brought forward at the left-hand end, and linked to Nos 4 & 5 with a low screen wall with doorway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, each unit 1-window, under a flush face gable. All windows are 3-light casements with stone transom and mullions, alternating flush jamb-stones and plain lintel; those at ground floor have small labels, continued over the doors to Nos 4 & 5. The upper casements have small-scale diamond cast-iron lights, and the lower small rectangular panes. The doors, on stone steps, and paired to Nos 4 & 5 have 3 small panels below glazed lights to 4-centred heads, under a deep transom light with diagonal panes. A rock-faced stone plinth, with a thin moulding approx 600m above, and a similar sill band at first-floor level. The gables, with a blind lancet to stone head and sill, are coped, on kneelers, and with roll-mould saddle-stones. At each party wall, and at end gables, are raised coped verges, and the brick stacks have high stone cappings with crenellations. The doors to Nos 1 & 2 are in the internal angle, sharing a slated porch on Portland stone brackets. Above each of the doors is a Portland stone sunk panel with monogram EH and a lion's head, surmounted by a label with raised centre. Between Nos 3 & 4 is a brick screen wall with stone coping containing a plank door under a flush stone lintel. There are original cast-iron down-pipes and hopper-heads, and ovolo-mould gutters. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Henry Edwards who was mayor of Weymouth, and MP for the constituency, was a considerable benefactor in the town. These almshouses are richly detailed, and externally remain little altered. Part of a larger group including Nos 10-14 (consec) James Street (qv); there is a further group, of 1896, in similar detail, in Rodwell Avenue (qv).

Listing NGR: SY6754678581

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Legacy System number:: 467849
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.