THE LINDENS

24, ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313410
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: THE LINDENS
Statutory Address:: 24, ALEXANDRA ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313410
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: THE LINDENS
Statutory Address 1:: 24, ALEXANDRA ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE LINDENS, 26, ALEXANDRA 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:: 24, ALEXANDRA ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE LINDENS, 26, ALEXANDRA 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 67665 80426

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6780SE ALEXANDRA ROAD 873-1/15/7 (West side) Nos.24 AND 26 The Lindens (No.26)

II

Barracks, now pair of semi-detached bungalows. 1798. By Alexander Copland (a London contractor) For the Barrack Master, General Col DeLancey. Rendered on timber-framing, slate hipped roof, replaced by asbestos-cement slate to No.24. Each bungalow is of L-plan; No.24 returns with a hipped end to a long wing, and No.26 returns to a set-back gabled projection, then the return wing. EXTERIOR: single storey, each 2 windows; 4-pane sashes, with pointed heads, but in square frames, above an apron panel. At the centre is a contemporary lean-to porch with a door to pointed head, under a transom light and with side-lights, with a mid-bar, and with small corner quadrants. Between the 2 bungalows is a vertical projecting party-divider with scalloped saw-tooth edge, continued over the roof slope as a slight capping, and there is an eaves band with a series of small stamped or punched quatrefoils, and fluted end pilasters. A ridge centre stack, and further stacks at each end. The left return has a gable end with wavy barge-board over a large 4-pane sash, and the right return a 1:3:1-light square bay with lean-to roof, and a large 4-pane sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably officers' quarters for Radipole Cavalry Barracks, built in 1798, but abandoned by 1828 (RCHME); these had a large parade square to the W of Dorchester Road, and the bungalows stood on the far W side of that square. Formed part of a chain of one-troop cavalry barracks along the south coast planned by DeLancey. With Nos 1-5 Radipole Terrace (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: SY6766580426

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Legacy System number:: 467257
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.