The Moorings
THE MOORINGS, WEST BAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389611
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Moorings
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOORINGS, WEST BAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389611
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Moorings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOORINGS, WEST BAY
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:
- THE MOORINGS, WEST BAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46373 90457
Details
BRIDPORT
777/0/10008 WEST BAY 10-DEC-01 The Moorings
GV II
House, converted into flats. Circa 1905; by E.S. Prior; converted late C20. Rendered. Large slate hipped roof with deep bellcast eaves. Rendered axial stacks with moulded cornices.
PLAN: Rectangular double-depth plan with central entrance/stair hall and two principal rooms at front with smaller service rooms behind.
Domestic Revival Queen Anne Style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay west front with slate-hung canted bay windows to left and right [the sashes replaced] with moulded cornices under the deep eaves; central doorway with bolection moulded architrave, panelled reveals, glazed door, side-lights and large moulded canopy on brackets; Venetian window above with enriched keyblock and sashes with glazing bars; two slate-hung gables integral with hipped roof and dormer between with little semi-circular pediment; the flat of the roof is railed and has a central glazed cupola with restored weathervane on top. Right-hand [S] side has sash windows complete with glazing bars and attached former boathouse converted to a dwelling. Rear [E] has 1 and 2-light sash windows with glazing bars, glazed double doors and late C20 flat roof dormers.
INTERIOR converted into flats, but retains many original features, including panelled doors with brass knobs, an open-well moulded string staircase with square newels and robust turned balusters and several original chimneypieces, two with decorative tiles; the bay windows at the front have pilastered frames.
SOURCE: Service, A., Edwardian Architecture, p.207.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 207
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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