Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6878NW COVE STREET
873-1/24/51 (East side)
14/06/74 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
(Formerly Listed as:
COVE STREET
(East side)
Nos.1-5 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses. c1808 (RCHME). Rendered, on brick, but
left gable unrendered, wide-span slate mansard roof with
half-hipped ends.
2 storeys and attic, each house 1-windowed; Nos 1 & 2 have
flat-roofed dormers with 6-pane sashes, and No.3 a raked
dormer with sash. 16-pane sashes remain to No.2, at ground
floor to No.1, but No.3 has 6-pane sashes without horizontal
bars. A 2-light casement has been inserted to a modified
opening to the first floor of No.1. Arched doorways with plain
reveals to the left of each house, replaced door to No.1 under
a stained-glass fanlight, and fanlight to No.3 painted over. A
brick stack to the right of each houses, also on the rear
slope.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: these are characteristic small-scale Weymouth
houses of this period, similar to Nos 3-6 Cove Row (qv), and
built on Corporation land to the terms of a lease of 1807. The
adjoining Nos 4 & 5 (qv), although similar, were separately
built.

Listing NGR: SY6807478591

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561978

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings