15 AND 16, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY

15 AND 16, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272126
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
15 AND 16, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
Statutory Address:
15 AND 16, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272126
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
15 AND 16, CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY
Statutory Address 1:
15 AND 16, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
15 AND 16, 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 68124 78760

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY 873-1/24/67 (North side) 14/06/74 Nos.15 AND 16

GV II

Pair of houses at end of row, returning to South Parade. Late C18 or early C19. Rendered, concrete tile mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, each 1 window; a raking 4-pane sash dormer above a bold canted oriel with plain sash, dentilled cornice carried across full width, and simple panelled skirt; interior panelled shutters to No.16. Ground floor has a 4-pane sash, and centred are arched doorways, with keystone, in reeded pilasters and with a reeded transom under a painted fanlight, to 6-panel doors (partly glazed to No.15). A small plinth, high blocking-course and coped parapet. Each gable has a very deep, narrow stack, that to the right raised in brickwork to clear the adjoining higher property. Left gable is plain, with an offset, and with a wide door with margin-pane glazing. Rear is in painted brick, with a 9-pane above 12-pane sash to each property. No.16 also has a 9-pane raking dormer. INTERIOR: not inspected. Although somewhat altered, the houses retain the scale of the earlier buildings on the quayside. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 347).

Listing NGR: SY6812478762

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Legacy System number:
467447
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 347

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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.

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