Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6779SE TURTON STREET 873-1/20/402 (North side) 14/06/74 Nos.14-18 (Consecutive) Carter's Cottages

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Terrace of 5 cottages, formerly almshouses. An inscribed stone gives 'S & M C 1835'. Squared and coursed Portland stone, slate roof. A straight row of single-depth cottages with low-pitched hipped roof and flat-roofed rear extension, set gable-end to Park Street. No.14 is double-fronted, the others have a single bay. 2 storeys, 6 windows, all in pointed arches with stone voussoirs, a small 2-light casement, retaining horizontal bar in No.18 only, and under a plain pointed transom light; in No.16 at first floor the casement replaced by a single square light. The first-floor windows are set well below the eaves level. All 6 doors are replacements, under voussoirs with a slight central key; No.14 has a large C20 porch, Nos 15 & 16 are under a lean-to slate hood. There are 2 square ridge stacks, one centrally, and the other towards the left end. The right end has a lower slated outbuilding. The flat-roofed extension is very shallow, and occupies what was a 1.5m gap between the almshouses and adjacent buildings in Park Street. INTERIOR not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 355).



Listing NGR: SY6792979442

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)