Belmont

BELMONT, POUND STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1230135
Date first listed:
27-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:
Belmont
Statutory Address:
BELMONT, POUND STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1230135
Date first listed:
27-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:
Belmont
Statutory Address 1:
BELMONT, POUND STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BELMONT, POUND STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lyme Regis
National Grid Reference:
SY 33748 92040

Details

POUND STREET 1. 1357 (South Side) Belmont SY 3392 3/64 27.lO.53. II* CV 2. Built probably about 1785 for Eleanor Coade, owner of Coade's Patent Artificial Stone Manufactory at Lambeth. 2-storey stuccoed front, 5 sash windows per floor. The ground floor windows are round-headed and have architraves with vermiculated rustucations, ornamental impost blocks and keystones with head of Neptune over door and heads of Amphitrite over windows. The central window space is taken up by a 6-panel door with ornamental band, and radiating fanlight. Guilloche band over ground floor. Plain sash windows 1st floor. Swagged frieze, cornice parapet surmounted by 6 Adam-style urns. Vermiculated angle rusticaticns. The whole of the enrichment is in Coade stone (RCHM Dorset, VolI); graded II* for this reason and for the fact that it was built for Eleanor Coade.

The Lawn, Hotel Buena Vista and the north boundary walls, Tivoli Cottage, Nos l4 & l5 and Belmont form a group.

Listing NGR: SY3374892040

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Legacy System number:
404930
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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