Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls
COASTGUARD STATION LOOK OUT TOWER AND ADJOINING WALLS, WESTHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375687
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls
- Statutory Address:
- COASTGUARD STATION LOOK OUT TOWER AND ADJOINING WALLS, WESTHILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-06-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/13709/33
- Rights:
- © Rev Andrew Salmon. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375687
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- COASTGUARD STATION LOOK OUT TOWER AND ADJOINING WALLS, WESTHILL ROAD
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:
- COASTGUARD STATION LOOK OUT TOWER AND ADJOINING WALLS, WESTHILL 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 66028 77399
Details
SY 67 NE WEYMOUTH WEST HILL ROAD
Wyke Regis
873-1/4/678
Coastguard Station Look-out Tower
And adjoining walls
II
Coastguard station look-out tower. Circa 1886, for the Admiralty Coastguards. Red brick in Flemished bond, with Portland stone dressings. Welsh slate roof with Portland stone coping and corbelled kneelers to gable ends.
Square on plan tower with external stairs to look-out on east side; integral yard walls on north and east sides.
2 storeys. North side has plank door with flat brick arch to store on ground floor. East side has external stairs to look-out, brick with stone treads and simple wrought-iron balustrade; C20 porch at top of stairs. First floor look-out windows on south and west sides with plate glass. Integral yard walls with curved profiles ramped up on north and east sides.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SY6599577419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469666
- 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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