Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1953. Houses. 1 related planning application.
Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- strange-shingle-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1953
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings, East Street, Weymouth, DT4 8BW
- OS grid reference
- SY 680 788
- Coordinates
- 50.60868, -2.45297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 39 and 40 are a pair of houses built around 1800, forming part of a group of three. They feature Flemish bond brickwork, painted at the ground floor, and have a slate double mansard roof. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and basement, each having one window. There is a blind light centered on the first floor. Above, a flat-roofed dormer contains a 20th-century casement window above tripartite 4:12:4-pane sash windows with mullions, although No. 39 has an inserted central casement in its first-floor window. The basement also has a tripartite sash window without bars in No. 39.
At the center of the houses are flush six-panel doors, with glazing in No. 40, set within a shared moulded architrave. This is topped by a slight hood with a moulded edge and fluted frieze, supported by three console brackets, all leading up to six stone steps. Above the ground-floor windows, there is a full-width fluted string, and a small modillion cornice at the eaves. Each house has a gable stack, and at the rear, there are dormers above 12-pane sash windows, along with small extensions. The interior has not been inspected. The properties also feature 20th-century railings on a stone curb around the basement areas. This pair was originally built as part of a unit of three with No. 41, which has a different ground floor treatment.
Local climate
Numbers 39 and 40 and Front Railings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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