Letterbox Cottage

WEYMOUTH

SY6681SW RADIPOLE LANE, Radipole 873-1/11/498 (East side) 12/12/53 Letterbox Cottage

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Formerly known as: Pillar Box Cottages RADIPOLE LANE Radipole. Detached house. C18. Rubble, thatch roof. A long low building facing E, with its back wall to the edge of the road, with a slight curve at the S end. There are 4 straight joints in the masonry, showing successive builds or infill action, and the roof is lower at the S end. One-and-a-half storeys. The main front, to the garden, has various casements, mainly with horizontal bars. At the left hand end, at the eaves to the lower roof, is a 2-light with small panes, then 2 hipped stone gables with 2-light casements above 3-lights at ground floor; centred to these is a 2-light dormer above a plank door plus 2-light. At the right-hand end is a pair of French doors, and a 3-light small-pane casement. The long, low one-storey road front has 4 square openings with very deep-set 4-pane casements to tiled sills. The half-hipped S end has an early 2-light iron casement with leading, above another similar casement and a very wide plank door with a ledge hood. There are 2 ridge stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 364).

Listing NGR: SY6642781389