Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6778NE CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY 873-1/23/59 (North side) 18/06/70 No.3 Old Fish Market

GV II

Market hall. c1855. Portland stone ashlar, Slate roof. A near-square plan with raised central clerestorey; the main front is on the Quay, and the return is in Maiden Street. One-storey front with arched openings over two 15-pane lights, and a central pair of part-glazed doors each with a radial fanlight over. The windows are on stone sills above aprons, recessed and with raised alternating jamb stones, with plain architrave above impost blocks, and with a prominent keystone carried up into a moulded eaves band; the door surround is the same, on one stone step. The front is framed in channelled pilasters, and with a plinth, impost band, and eaves moulding beneath a deep projecting flat eaves with exposed shaped rafter ends. The hipped lower roof rises to a central raised hipped clerestorey with vertical boarding, probably formerly louvred. The return to Maiden Street is in 2 bays, one door and one window, detailed as the main front. INTERIOR: has a dropped C20 ceiling, and inserted brick piers, and the roof structure is not visible. There was formerly an ice room (Ricketts). A handsome building, characteristic of commercial enterprise in the earlier C19. (Ricketts E: The Buildings of Old Weymouth: Melcombe Regis and Westham: Weymouth: 1976-: 116).





Listing NGR: SY6797978724

External Links

• Wikidata Q26561986

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)