GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE

GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272170
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272170
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER 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:: GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 708 YEW TREE COTTAGE, 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:: SY 67011 84648

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6784 DORCHESTER ROAD, Upwey 873-1/7/655 (East side) Gate piers and boundary walls to No.708 Yew Tree Cottage

GV II

Gate piers with attached boundary walls. Early C19. Dressed limestone piers, squared rubble walls. A pair of piers approx 0.45m square, in banded dressed stone, alternate courses being rock-faced. The square cappings have a moulded edge above a cut-down frieze incorporating remains of triglyphs, plus ball finials on shaped bases. The piers are approx 1.7m high, spaced approx 2m apart, with a later wooden barred gate. To each side is a short quadrant of wall to approx 1.5m height, in coursed rubble and with on-edge copings, brought to the rear edge of the pavement.

Listing NGR: SY6701184648

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Legacy System number:: 467491
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.