Office Block of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery
OFFICE BLOCK OF MESSRS ELDRIDGE POPES BREWERY, WEYMOUTH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290728
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Office Block of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery
- Statutory Address:
- OFFICE BLOCK OF MESSRS ELDRIDGE POPES BREWERY, WEYMOUTH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290728
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Office Block of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery
- Statutory Address 1:
- OFFICE BLOCK OF MESSRS ELDRIDGE POPES BREWERY, WEYMOUTH AVENUE
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:
- OFFICE BLOCK OF MESSRS ELDRIDGE POPES BREWERY, WEYMOUTH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69145 90220
Details
WEYMOUTH AVENUE 1. 5191 (East Side) Office block of Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery SY 6990 7/309 II GV 2. 1880. Architect G R Crickmay of Weymouth. Yellow, red and brown brick. Slate roof. 3 storeys at ends, 2 in middle. Red brick stacks with ashlar cornicing. 2 end bays break forward and are crowned by hipped roof with stone brackets to eaves. 2 modern windows and door on ground floor. Door in recessed bay with semi-circular relieving arch over, whose tympanum is filled with patterned and moulded brick. 1st floor has 2 tripartite sashes with segmental relieving arches over, tympanum filled with glazed tiles. 2nd floor has 2 pairs of paired sashes separated by squat attached columns with crocketed capitals. Hoodmould joins the 2 pairs, arching over a panel with a shield bearing Eldridge Pope monogram. Next 2 bays have parapet with "Dorchester Brewery" in sans-cerif, above a cornice taken on stone brackets. 2 modern windows on ground floor. 2 pairs of paired sashes with segmental heads on 1st floor. Final bay has pyramidal roof with stone brackets to eaves. 1 pair of round-arched sashes separated by squat attached columns with crocketed capitals on ground floor. 1 pair of sashes with segmental heads on 1st floor. 3 sashes separated by squat attached columns with crocket capitals on 2nd floor. Moulded terra-cotta band below 2nd floor sill. All the listed buildings at Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery form a group.]
Listing NGR: SY6914590220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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