Coastguard Cottages With Boundary Wall and Piers

COASTGUARD COTTAGES WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 1-8, BARRACK ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1313419
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Coastguard Cottages With Boundary Wall and Piers
Statutory Address:
COASTGUARD COTTAGES WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 1-8, BARRACK ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1313419
Date first listed:
22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:
Coastguard Cottages With Boundary Wall and Piers
Statutory Address 1:
COASTGUARD COTTAGES WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 1-8, BARRACK ROAD

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
COASTGUARD COTTAGES WITH BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 1-8, BARRACK 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 68262 78650

Details

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW BARRACK ROAD 873-1/24/14 (North side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive) Coastguard Cottages, with boundary wall and piers

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Coastguard cottages, now terrace of 8 houses. c1880. Flemish bond brickwork, stone dressings, slate roof. A long row of dwellings, entered from a terrace on the N side, away from the street, and facing the Harbour. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; Barrack Road front is in 9x2+1 windows, all small 12-pane sashes in flush stone dressings with alternating jambs and stone sills. The gables have raised coped verges set to bold modelled stone and brick kneelers, and there are 5 brick ridge stacks with brick cappings. The right-hand gable end has 2 windows and a plank door with a 3-pane transom light. The N side is similarly detailed, with 8 original doors under 3-pane transom lights, on 2 stone steps, and each with a cast-iron foot-scraper and flanked by small single lights. The cast-iron ogee gutters have down-pipes with an Admiralty anchor cast on. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to Barrack Road is a full-width low brick wall to stone coping at approx 0.65m; at either end are pairs of square stone gate-piers with low pyramidal cappings. The wall continues to the right to link with the boundary to Nothe House (qv). Included as an unusually complete row of purpose-built housing of this type. Has group value with the Master's house, Nothe House (qv), immediately adjoining.





Listing NGR: SY6826278650

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467266
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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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