OLD FISH MARKET

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:: OLD FISH MARKET, 3, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 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

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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.