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Latitude: 50.6074 / 50°36'26"N
Longitude: -2.4539 / 2°27'13"W
OS Eastings: 367978
OS Northings: 78724
OS Grid: SY679787
Mapcode National: GBR PY.DPD9
Mapcode Global: FRA 57RG.FTY
Plus Code: 9C2VJG4W+WC
Entry Name: Old Fish Market
Listing Date: 18 June 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1272114
English Heritage Legacy ID: 467435
ID on this website: 101272114
Location: Weymouth, Dorset, DT4
County: Dorset
Electoral Ward/Division: Melcombe Regis
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Weymouth
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Radipole and Melcombe Regis
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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