Old Fish Market
OLD FISH MARKET, 3, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272114
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Old Fish Market
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FISH MARKET, 3, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272114
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Old Fish Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FISH MARKET, 3, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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:
- OLD FISH MARKET, 3, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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 67978 78723
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6778NE CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY 873-1/23/59 (North side) 18/06/70 No.3 Old Fish Market
GV II
Market hall. c1855. Portland stone ashlar, Slate roof. A near-square plan with raised central clerestorey; the main front is on the Quay, and the return is in Maiden Street. One-storey front with arched openings over two 15-pane lights, and a central pair of part-glazed doors each with a radial fanlight over. The windows are on stone sills above aprons, recessed and with raised alternating jamb stones, with plain architrave above impost blocks, and with a prominent keystone carried up into a moulded eaves band; the door surround is the same, on one stone step. The front is framed in channelled pilasters, and with a plinth, impost band, and eaves moulding beneath a deep projecting flat eaves with exposed shaped rafter ends. The hipped lower roof rises to a central raised hipped clerestorey with vertical boarding, probably formerly louvred. The return to Maiden Street is in 2 bays, one door and one window, detailed as the main front. INTERIOR: has a dropped C20 ceiling, and inserted brick piers, and the roof structure is not visible. There was formerly an ice room (Ricketts). A handsome building, characteristic of commercial enterprise in the earlier C19. (Ricketts E: The Buildings of Old Weymouth: Melcombe Regis and Westham: Weymouth: 1976-: 116).
Listing NGR: SY6797978724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ricketts, E, The Buildings of Old Weymouth Melcombe Regis and Westham, (1975), 116
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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