Numbers 4 And 5 Coburg Place (Terrace)

SY6779SE 873-1/20/333 14/06/74

WEYMOUTH ST THOMAS STREET (East side) Nos.4 and 5 Coburg Place (terrace)

GV II

Pair of houses in row, with shops. Late C18 or early C19. Rendered, slate mansard roof. No.5 continues through to No.106, St Mary Street, with a late C19 frontage. EXTERIOR: main building: 2 storeys with 2 attic floors, each 1 window, all sashes, but with a central window at first floor. 4-pane flat-roofed dormers above a flat plain sash bow oriel to No.4 with curved glass to the sashes, and a canted oriel to No.5; between these is a 12-pane sash with flush moulded box. No.4 has a C20 shop front under a modillion cornice, continuing from the adjoining building to the left; No.5 has a moulded cornice, continued round the skirt of the oriel, and fluted consoles on thin pilasters, enclosing a late C20 display front. A thin cornice, blocking-course and coped parapet. No stacks are visible, and the roof has a small lead upstand roll at the party division. The rear of this block has 2 narrow upper dormers above 1+2 lower dormers. To the rear of No.5, in St Mary Street, is a 2-storey late C19 display front; the ground floor has been replaced with a late C20 insert, but the upper level has the original glass and cast-iron detail, in 3 lights, the full width, with very slender mullions, very flat 4-centred heads, and 6 paired transom lights under a deep fascia and dentil cornice. The slender pilasters, with cappings and necking-bands, continue to the ground floor. This type of double-height front is commonly associated with hardware stores in the later C19. INTERIOR not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 352).

Listing NGR: SY6797379183