Custom House - Custom House Quay - Weymouth Harbour - road sign : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Custom House - Custom House Quay - Weymouth Harbour - road sign / 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.This is the Custom House. Now home of HM Coastguard Portland - Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.At 8 Custom House Quay. Grade II listed.Custom House 8, WeymouthWEYMOUTHSY6878NW CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY873-1/24/62 (North side)18/06/70 No.8Custom HouseGV IIWarehouse and living accommodation, later Custom House,currently occupied by HM Coastguard. Late C18 original fabric,much modified early C19.English bond brickwork front with some darker brick to quoinsand jambs, and diaper decoration, rendered returns and back,slate roof.PLAN: building returns to East Street at an obtuse angle, andthe back is in Helen Lane; the original layout had the mainstaircase to the right, between 2 principal rooms, and thesecond floor was one large storage space, but there have beenlater sub-divisions.EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; the Quay front is 2 windowswide, but with an inserted square, flat-roofed oriel to thesecond floor, with glazing bars to a 2-light front andsingle-light return, with transom, and vertical boarded skirt.This is flanked by 6-pane centre-hung casements to camberedheads, above 2 large 12:12:12-pane oriels with panelledfrieze, dentil cornice, and panelled mullions, to plain skirtsover paired 4-pane sashes to a wide mullion and stone sills.At the centre a pair of panelled doors in an arched openinghas a C20 channelled surround, with open triangular pedimenton heavy consoles. Above this is a painted Royal Arms incast-iron. There is a plinth, stone frieze mould and cornice,blocking-course and coped parapet.The left return, rendered, has a large stack.The front to East Street is rendered, with a 9-pane pivotwindow flanked by louvres over a 12-pane sash in flush mouldedbox; at ground floor is a 4-pane sash, and two 6-panel doorsin heavy Roman Doric pilaster doorcases. Eaves stack at thecentre.Rear, in 2 sections, has a flat-roofed dormer with slatecheeks, with central 6-pane light flanked by horizontalboarding. At second floor are 3- and 2-light casements withtransoms to wide segmental heads, and 2 small 4-pane lights,above 2 paired 12-pane sashes with mullion, to segmentalheads, and at the ground floor a blocked doorway, broadreplacement door, and a 2-light window to heavy sill.The second unit, to the right, which returns to a squaredrubble double gable end, has a similar dormer, but to a hippedroof, above a broad 3-light with transom under segmental head,paired 12-pane sash, and a 2-light, plus doors with louvres.There is some stonework in the lower walls of both rearsections, and the left-hand end has flush Portland stonequoins.INTERIOR: not inspected, but RCHME records moulded cornice anddado to the first-floor front room, and the roof supported bycomposite king-post trusses.HISTORICAL NOTE: a panel in the entrance lobby records thatthe building was used as a warehouse by Messrs Robilliard andAhier from 1794; Robilliard lived on the ground floor. Thelarge wheel and gibbet, on display, were part of the hoistsystem in Helen Lane. By 1810 both men were out of business.In 1874 the property was owned by Sir Frederick Johnstone, wholeased it to HM Customs. It was purchased by the Secretary ofState in the 1970s, but vacated by Customs in 1985. In July1988 it was taken over by HM Coastguard.(RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 339).Listing NGR: SY6802778725Road sign for Custom House Quay. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-05-01 12:35:02 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Chapelhay, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |