Bank Buildings - Custom House Quay - Weymouth Harbour : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bank Buildings - Custom House Quay - Weymouth Harbour / ell brown
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| 説明 | It was such a nice day, that we headed to Weymouth and Portland. Lucky to have blue skys as well after previous rainy days.The harbour in Weymouth.Along Custom House Quay at Weymouth Harbour.On the corner of Pilgrims Way is the Bank Buildings.Grade II listed.Bank Buildings Including Front Railings 16, WeymouthWEYMOUTHSY6878NW ESPLANADE873-1/24/107 (South side)18/06/70 No.16Bank Buildings, including frontrailings(Formerly Listed as:ESPLANADENo.16Edward Hotel, Bank Buildings)GV IIMarked on OS as Edward Hotel.Large house, formerly hotel, at end of row. c1850 and 1900.Cream brickwork in Flemish bond, slate roof. A rectangularblock, with frontages on 3 sides, including Custom House Quayto the S. The house underwent considerable modification,especially to the ground floor, in c1900.EXTERIOR: 3 storeys (with an extra storey at the S end), atticand basement. The main front is symmetrical 3 windows; 2flat-roofed C20 casement dormers above 12-pane sashes to plainreveals and a sill band at second floor, above deep 15-pane toplain reveals, on a stone full-width balcony on 8 brackets,and a cast-iron balustrade with anthemion decoration.Ground floor has 2 wide arches in 4 recessed orders to a largearched 3-light casement with transom, the upper mullions beingin the form of colonnettes, and with deep stooled sills to therecess. The central arch is in 5 orders over a C20 door withplain fanlight to a dentilled transom, and flutedquarter-pilaster responds, all on 5 nosed steps flanked by asolid panelled balustrade, swept down to the front, andflanked by Gothick railings, returned at the left end, and toa gate and basement steps to the right.There are prominent down-pipes with large hopper-heads ateither end of the frontage. The low-pitched hipped roof has adeep eaves with exposed rafters, and two stacks to the rightparty wall.The flank facing the side road is in 5 bays. There are 3original flat-roofed dormers, above four 12-pane sashes to asill band, and an inserted door to an escape stair at bay 2.At first floor are 4 deep 15-pane sashes to a sill band, and asimilar door. At ground floor is a recessed arch over a 9-panesash, then, on a paired set of 6 steps with arched support, aflat canopy on heavy brackets over a glazed and panelledscreen covering 2 doors with Art Nouveau detail under transomlights with a central mullion. To the right, in an ellipticalarch is a tripartite sash, above a further 3-light window. Astone plinth, which returns to the Quay frontage.The Quay frontage is in 3 bays, with 2 large late C20 dormersand a railed balcony, above small square 6-pane sashes atthird and second floors, the latter breaking through the sillband at their heads. The first floor has 12-pane sashes to thesill band, and the raised ground floor has 3 recessed archedpanels, with a central very wide 16-pane sash under a renderedtympanum flanked by 12-pane with splayed V-joint voussoirswithin the arch. The stone plinth is taken up to the sills ofthese windows, and contains a wide central square opening withglazed doors, on a set of 6 steps to the basement. This isflanked by grilled openings.On the party wall side is a central lift tower, a stack nearthe Quay end, and a sash near the Esplanade front, above theadjoining building.INTERIOR: not inspected.Listing NGR: SY6816578795 |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 12:30:51 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Weymouth, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |