Numbers 1-5 Radipole Terrace
1-5 RADIPOLE TERRACE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272144
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-5 Radipole Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 1-5 RADIPOLE TERRACE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272144
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-5 Radipole Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-5 RADIPOLE TERRACE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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:
- 1-5 RADIPOLE TERRACE, DORCHESTER 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:
- SY6782480544
Details
SY6780NE
873-1/14/81
23/05/94
WEYMOUTH
DORCHESTER ROAD
(West side)
Nos.1-5 (consecutive) Radipole Terrace
II
Terrace of 5 single-storey houses, possibly originally
officers' accommodation. 1798. By Alexander Copland (a London
contractor). For the Barrack Master, General Col DeLancey.
Rendered, some on timber-frame, some to brickwork: No.1 has
some exposed mathematical tiling, but concealed elsewhere,
slate roofs.
PLAN: terrace is set at right angles to Dorchester Road, and
backs on Alexandra Road; originally it faced a large parade
ground, part of Radipole Cavalry Barracks.
EXTERIOR: each bungalow has a door with a single large window
each side, and a rear gabled wing taken through to Alexandra
Road.
No.1 has three 16-pane sashes in moulded boxes in its end
gable, and similar sashes to the front; its panelled,
part-glazed door formerly had a transom light, now blocked.
No.2 has replaced windows and door, this with transom light,
and No.3 retains a 12-pane sash to the right, with French
doors with margin-panes to the left of the central flush
4-panelled door with 3-pane transom light. Nos 4 & 5 have
replacement doors and windows. There are 3 ridge stacks, the
centre one cropped to ridge level.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: these modest buildings have special historic
interest, as they are practically all that remains from a
large barracks complex, begun in 1798 and extended in 1800 and
1804, with a maximum complement of 953 officers and men and
986 horses. It is supposed that these bungalows were officers'
accommodation.
There is also special architectural interest in the use of
mathematical tiles, common in the south-east of England: this
must represent the furthest penetration of the method to the
west.
At the time of survey a little of the timber-frame was exposed
to the front of No.1, and some mathematical tiles could be
distinguished at plinth level.
Formed part of a chain of one-troop cavalry barracks along the
south coast planned by DeLancey. With Nos 24 & 26 Alexandra
Road (qv), these have considerable historic interest as
examples of semi-permanent military accommodation between the
flexible and cheap temporary use of rented warehouses and
barns during the intense invasion scares of the Napoleonic
Wars, and the permanent but slow and costly alternative of
brick barracks.
(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 358).
Listing NGR: SY6782480544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467465
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 358
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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