PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135

PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135, ESPLANADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328298
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135
Statutory Address:: PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135, ESPLANADE

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Date:: 2002-10-14
Reference:: IOE01/08752/07
Rights:: © Mr Douglas Holt. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328298
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135
Statutory Address 1:: PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135, ESPLANADE

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:: PROMENADE SHELTER TO EAST OF NUMBER 135, ESPLANADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weymouth
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: SY 68156 79759

Details

WEYMOUTH

SO6879NW ESPLANADE 873-1/18/169 (East side) Promenade shelter to east of No.135

GV II

Promenade shelter. Late C19. Castings by Jeffreys, Westminster. Cast-iron and wood structure, lead roof. The low-pitched hipped roof has small gablets, and a rich fretted decorative embellishment to the ridge, with finials, and the eaves on all sides, beneath a plain frieze, covering an open-sided 2-bay shelter on 3 pairs of slender turned wood columns with cast-iron brackets to a grid of moulded beams and a panelled soffit in 12 compartments, plus diagonal 'dragon beams' to the corner bays. The glazed central and end screens have a central mullion and a transom at the bracket springing height; wooden slatted seats are set to cast-iron brackets. Cantilevered from the promenade over the beach is a corresponding balcony in 4x1 bays, with cast-iron standards with scrolled stays, and 2 horizontal rails, returned at the ends, and on a structure of cast-iron beams and fill. A small cast plate on the S end, above the seating records 'J. JEFFREYS/ ....& CAST IRON/ 10 GREAT QUEEN STREET/ WESTMINSTER'. One of 7 similar shelters (qv), maintained in good condition, this is one of 2 near the promenade edge with its own section of balcony, and is the furthest N of the group.

Listing NGR: SY6815679759

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 467621
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.