Listed Building: 1, 2 AND 3, COVE STREET (467427)

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

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