Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6878SW SPRING ROAD
873-1/28/264 (West side)
Former Coopers' shop

GV II

Includes: Former Coopers' shop DEVENISH SQUARE.
Coopers' shop, now store or workshop, attached to former
brewery range. Dated 1869. Rubble, brickwork, horizontal
boarding on framing, concrete tile roof.
An L-shaped single-storey building on a triangular site
immediately S of Brewers Quay (qv); the base of a former stack
remains on the E side.
Facing Brewers Quay the front is in rubble with brick
dressings and rounded outer corners, with a central loading
door in a gabled half-dormer above C20 doors. The Spring Road
front is in rubble with brick dressings, with one small eaves
stack, and a large square stack podium in brick, with a stone
capping to the circular base, and with saw-tooth brick
dentils. The E front has the date, 1869, and the N front D &
Co (Devenish).
The inner walls are framed with slender cast-iron columns; the
N range is in 6 bays, with 9-pane fixed casements above
boarding, and doors to bays 1 & 4. The E range, in 5 bays, is
similar, and with a series of C20 roof lights. The outer gable
is in rubble with boarding to the gable and a pair of
full-height wide plank doors. The roof structure is C19 king
post trusses.
Forms an integral part of an outstanding group of brewery
buildings in the Hope Square area.

Listing NGR: SY6806478468

Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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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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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House